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Sold on 23 June 2005

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A Fine Collection of Meritorious Service Medals

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№ 390

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£75

A Great War ‘France and Flanders’ M.S.M. to Private-Lance Corporal A. E. Belsham, Royal Engineers

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (WR-26825 Pte-L. Cpl., R.E.) nearly extremely fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Meritorious Service Medals.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 18 January 1919. ‘WR/26825 Pte. (L./Cpl.) A. E. Belsham, 345th Road Const. Coy. (Harrow)’. ‘... in recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders’.

‘Private’, an unusual rank for the Royal Engineers.