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

№ 899

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£480

A Great War ‘South Russia’ M.S.M. group of five to Serjeant H. C. Richardson, Royal Engineers

1914 Star, with copy clasp (16341 Sapr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (16341 Sjt., R.E.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1852081 Sjt., R.E.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (16341 Sjt., R.E.), mounted as worn, some contact marks, very fine (5) £350-380

M.S.M. London Gazette 4 March 1920. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the British Military Mission to South Russia’.

Hubert Charles Richardson enlisted into the Army on 24 September 1906 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war with the 45th Field Company R.E. on 5 October 1914. Sold with copied research.