Auction Catalogue

31 March 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 805

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,800

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 F. B. Stone, Royal Engineers

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘S.M. F. B. Stone, R.E., 12.8.16’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (4889 Sapr., R.E.); 1914-15 Star (45850 C.Q.M. Sjt., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (45850 W.O. Cl.2, R.E.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (45850 C.S. Mjr., M.C., R.E.) very fine and better (6) £900-1100

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘90th Field Coy., R.E.’

Company Quartermaster Serjeant Frank B. Stone, Royal Engineers, came from Farnham and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 May 1915. Awarded the Military Cross and the Meritorious Service Medal for his military services; he was later transferred to the Class Z Reserve. With copied m.i.c.