The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals

Pair: Lance-Corporal C. W. Britton, Machine Gun Corps, late Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own), who was killed in action on the Western Front on 8 June 1918

British War and Victory Medals (65653 Pte. C. W. Britton. M.G.C.); Memorial Plaque (Charles William Britton); Memorial Scroll, ‘L/Cpl. Charles William Britton, Machine Gun Corps’, all mounted in an ornate gilded wooden glazed display frame with Buckingham Palace enclosure pasted to the reverse, extremely fine (4) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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Charles William Britton was born in 1884 at Walthamstow, Essex. He attested for the Rifle Brigade at Hammersmith and served with them during the Great War (No. 21583) prior to transferring to the Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action on 8 June 1918 whilst serving on the Western Front with 62nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. The son of Charles and Elizabeth Britton and husband of Augusta Fanny Britton, of 3, Brooklyn Rd., Shepherd's Bush, London, he is buried in Gommecourt British Cemetery No. 2, Hebuterne, France.

Sold together with a mounted contemporary professional photograph of the recipient’s grave and another of Gommecourt No. 2 Cemetery; 4 Field Service Postcards and 8 hand-written letters (all envelopes stamped by Field Censor) sent by the recipient to his father in 1917 and 1918 and a patriotic postcard featuring union flags and the words ‘Your country called, you answered. God be with you.’