Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Sergeant A. F. Cumming, Royal Artillery, who was wounded in North Russia

British War and Victory Medals (300373 A. Sjt. A. F. Cumming. R.A.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, officially numbered 'B75988', good very fine (2) £50-£70

Archibald Ferguson Cumming was born at Oban in 1898 and served with the 4th Highland Mountain Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War in North Russia. A typed biography, written by the recipient’s son and included with the lot, states:
‘In 1917, they were part of, what my father called, “Churchill's lost expedition”. On 4 November 1918, Dad was in a forward trench spotting for the Artillery. There was a burst of machine-gun fire, a bullet entered the left side of his face, through his tongue, ricocheted off a partial denture on the right side of his face and out. The original burst of fire had blown off 2 fingers from his left hand which had been holding the field telephone.’

Sold with a photograph of the recipient wearing his medals in later life; and copied research.