Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A good Great War M.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant G. Mee, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (6281 Sapr. G. Mee, ‘A’ Sig. Coy. R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6281 Sapper G. Mee, Rl. Engrs.): Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (6281 Sapr. G. Mee, R.E.); 1914 Star (6281 Sapr. G. Mee, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (6281 T. Sjt. G. Mee, R.E.), the second and third with contact marks and polished, good fine, the remainder very fine or better (6) £700-900

M.M. London Gazette 10 November 1916.

George Mee, a veteran of the Boer War and Somaliland operations, in which latter theatre of war he served with the 2nd Division Telegraph Battalion from July 1903, first went out to France as a Sapper in ‘F’ Cable Section, R.E., a unit of I Corps, in mid-August 1914. And it was in that capacity that he distinguished himself at Loos and won a “mention” in Field Marshal Sir John French’s despatch of 15 October 1915 (London Gazette 1 January 1916, refers). His unit then having been re-designated ‘A’ Signals Company, R.E., also of I Corps, he was advanced to Acting Sergeant and awarded the M.M. for gallantry in 1916; sold with copied research.