Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 360

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£210

A Great War M.S.M. for Gallantry to Serjeant A. Williams, Royal Field Artillery

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (696080 Sjt., 57/W. Lan. Bde., D.A.C., R.F.A.) good very fine £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Meritorious Service Medals.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 7 October 1918. ‘696080 Sjt. A. Williams, R.F.A. (Preston)’. ‘... for Gallantry in the performance of Military duty’.

D.A.C. = Divisional Ammunition Column. 54 M.S.M’s. for gallantry were gazetted for the Artillery between 1916 and 1920; of which 31 were to the R.F.A.