The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Serjeant F. Phillips, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (5695 Pte-A. Sjt., 3/F.A. R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star (5695 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (5695 A. Sjt., R.A.M.C.) good very fine (4) £300-340

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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M.M. London Gazette 16 July 1918.

Sold with recipient’s ‘Old Contemptibles’ Association Card and a mounted paper cutting (part torn): ‘... gazetted on the 2nd inst. - Taunton Man Honoured. - The Military Medal has been awarded to Sergt. Frank Phillips, R.A.M.C., for conspicuous bravery in leading the stretcher bearers to and fro unceasingly and fearlessly for forty-eight hours under terrific barrage, thus enabling the battlefield to be cleared very quickly of its wounded. Sergt. Phillips went to France with the Expeditionary Force in August, 1914, and was with the 1st Division on their retreat from Mons, and since has been attached to the Guards for over three years. He is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Frank Phillips, of (?), Taunton, and husband of Mrs F. (?) Palfrey), Winpenny, Kingston, Taunton, (?)’