Special Collections

Sold on 17 September 2004

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Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram

John Douglas Bertram

Lot

№ 350

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17 September 2004

Hammer Price:
£390

A Great War M.M. to Corporal W. Mather, 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

Military Medal
, G.V.R. (35335 Pte., 10/Nth’d. Fus.) extremely fine £250-300

M.M. London Gazette 12 December 1917.

William Mather was born in Bishop Aukland. Serving as a Corporal with the 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he was killed in action in Italy on 29 October 1918. Formerly Private 3294, Durham Light Infantry. He was interred in the Tezze British Cemetery, north of Treviso.