Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare Great War Italian War Cross group of four awarded to Corporal E. H. Male, Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (1494 Cpl., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (1494 Cpl., R.E.); Italian War Cross, mounted as worn, together with an original photographic postcard depicting the recipient being invested with his Italian decoration, very fine or better and rare (4)

Ernest Henry Male, a native of Barnstaple, was awarded his Italian War Cross for services in 48th Divisional Signal Company, R.E.,Territorial Force (London Gazette 17 May 1919 refers). He first entered the French theatre of war on 31 March 1915.