Auction Catalogue

17 & 18 September 2009

Starting at 11:00 AM

.

Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 533

.

18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£260

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private A Nicholls, 4th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (47267 Pte., 4/York & Lanc. R.) slight contact marks, very fine £200-240

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

The recipient came from Liverpool.

The 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, by Captain D. P. Grant, records (p.139) that Nicholls’ M.M. was awarded for carrying messages under fire.