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13 March 2024

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№ 80

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13 March 2024

Hammer Price:
£280

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant R. S. Billingham, 2/1st Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company

Military Medal, G.V.R. (5445 A. Cpl. R. S. Billingham. 2/1 H.A.C. -T.F.); British War and Victory Medals (5445 Sjt. R. S. Billingham. H.A.C. -Inf.-) VM officially re-impressed, in named card boxes of issue, with outer OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to St. Albans, extremely fine (3) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 9 July 1917.

Sold with named Record Office enclosure for the MM; and a letter to the recipient from Barclays Bank Ltd (his civilian employers), congratulating him on the award of his MM, dated 19 July 1917.