Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1917 ‘Western Front ’ M.M. and 1918 Second Award Bar awarded to Sergeant G. E. Long, 7th (Service) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, who was wounded four times during the Great War, and was commissioned into the Battalion in September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (12338 Sjt: G. E. Long. 7/Norf: R.) very fine £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Kenneth Petrie Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 18 October 1917.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 23 February 1918.

George Edwin Long was born in Walsingham, Norfolk in March 1884. . He served during the Great War with the 7th (Service) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in the French theatre of war from 30 May 1915. Long advanced to Sergeant, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 24 September 1918 (he was wounded on four occasions during the Great War, and the lot is included with a photographic image of recipient in uniform wearing his wound stripes). After the war he returned to Walsingham, were he resided for his entire life, and was employed as gardener and caretaker of St. Mary’s Church, Walsingham. Long died in October 1960.