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

№ 1058

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6 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£340

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal F. Rogers, Royal Garrison Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (16550 A. Bmbr., 113/Hy. By. R.G.A.); 1914 Star (16550 Gnr., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (16550 Cpl., R.A.), mounted as worn, very fine and better (4) £280-320

M.M. London Gazette 27 October 1916.

Frederick Rogers was born in Fareham, Hampshire, and living in Lower Beeding, Sussex, enlisted at Portsmouth. Serving with the 113th Heavy Battery R.G.A. Rogers won the M.M. for bravery. He was killed in action, serving with the same unit, on 3 October 1917. He was buried in the Hibers Trench Cemetery, Wancourt, Pas de Calais, France.