Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant C. W. Poxon, Durham Light Infantry, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (C-421 Sjt., 16/K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (C-421 L. Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.) gilded; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) good very fine (4) £400-450

M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1916.

Christopher William Poxon was born in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. As a Lance-Sergeant in the K.R.R.C. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 November 1915. As a Sergeant in the 16th Battalion he was awarded the M.M. for bravery in the field. In 1917 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry (London Gazette 28 June 1917) and in 1919 was advanced to Lieutenant (London Gazette 13 February 1919). With copied research.