Lot Archive

Download Images

Lot

№ 222

.

20 April 2022

Hammer Price:
£120

Five: Gunner J. G. Greenaway, Royal Field Artillery and Divisional Signals Company

1914-15 Star (69771 Gnr. J. G. Greenaway. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (69771 Gnr. J. G. Greenaway. R.A.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (69771 Cpl. J. G. Greenaway, Div. Sig) surname partially officially corrected; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (James George Greenaway), mounted as worn, naming on Star very feint, contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (5) £120-£160

James George Greenaway was born at Eynsham, Oxford, and attested for service in the Royal Field Artillery, transferring from the Depot, the Border Regiment, on 28 March 1911, aged 19. He was discharged in 1923, at Woolwich, and was subsequently employed by the Post Office Telephone Department, being awarded the Imperial Service Medal as Technician, Class I, Oxford Telephone Area, on his retirement (London Gazette 24 April 1951).