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18 January 2023

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№ 164

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18 January 2023

Hammer Price:
£420

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private G. Dewhurst, 27th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (31516 Pte. G. Dewhurst. 27/F.A. R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (31516 Pte. G. Dewhurst. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (31516 Pte. G. Dewhurst. R.A.M.C.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘440351’; a British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, bronze; and a Army Temperance Association Six Month Medal, silvered, mounted as worn, very fine and better (7) £300-£400

Dix Noonan Webb, February 1999.

M.M. London Gazette 28 July 1917.

Gilbert Dewhurst attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with the 27th Field Ambulance during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 May 1915.

Sold with a group photograph of the recipient with his section, in uniform, and mounted in a small display frame.