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

№ 1255

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£750

A Great War M.M. group of five to Private A. Rowe, Rifle Brigade

Military Medal, G.V.R. (7848 Pte., 1/Rif. Brig.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-19024 clasps, Cape Colony, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (7848 Pte., Rifle Brigade); 1914 Star (7848 Pte., 1/Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (7848 Pte., Rif. Brig.), mounted Court style, nearly very fine and better (5) £500-600

M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919.

Private Alfred Rowe, 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 September 1915. Sold with some copied research.

The recipient entered the theatre of war on 11 Septrember 1914, not 1915