Auction Catalogue

6 December 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1040

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6 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£550

A Great War ‘Gallipoli’ D.C.M. to Acting Corporal B. Jennings, York and Lancashire Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (20890 A. Cpl., 6/Y. & L. R.) nearly extremely fine £600-800

D.C.M. London Gazette 15 March 1916. ‘For conspicuous gallantry at Sulva, Gallipoli Peninsula, on the night of 18th November 1915, when, during a Turkish bombing attack, he brought in wounded men under heavy fire and recovered the body of an officer which had fallen into the hands of the Turks’.