Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Palestine Operations’ M.M. awarded to Private A. P. House, 13th (County of London) Battalion (Princess Louise’s Kensington Battalion), London Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (491976 Pte. A. P. House. 2/13 Lond: R.) minor edge nicks, very fine £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 25 April 1918.

Arthur Percy House was born in Stratford, Essex, in 1881. A travelling salesman, he attested for the London Regiment at Stratford on 3 April 1916 and served with the 13th Battalion on the Somme from 11 October 1916 as part of 179th Brigade in the 60th (2/2nd London) Division. Transferred with his Battalion to Salonika on 19 November 1916 and Egypt in July 1917, House was later awarded the Military Medal - most likely an award for the capture and defence of Jerusalem in December 1917.