Auction Catalogue

24 & 25 June 2009

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 968

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25 June 2009

Hammer Price:
£210

Pair: Second Lieutenant Ivan Percival Campbell Sorge, 9th attached 6th Battalion Border Regiment, who died of wounds on 15 October 1916

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-120

Sapper Ivan Percival Campbell Sorge, Royal Engineers, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 14 December 1914. Commissioned on 10 February 1915, he died of wounds on 15 October 1916, aged 21 years. He was buried in the Etretet Churchyard, France. Prior to the war, he had worked in the Clerical Department of the L. & N.W. Railway Marine Department. He was the son of Percival and Anne Sorge of Holyhead. Entitled to the 1914-15 Star. With copied m.i.c. and other research.