Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War M.M. and Two Bars group of five awarded to Colour Serjeant A. Walker, 8th (Service) Battalion East Surrey Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. with Second and Third Award Bars (5113 L. Cpl., 8/E. Surr. R.); 1914-15 Star (5113 Cpl., E. Surr. R.); British War and Victory Medals (5113 A.C. Sjt., E. Surr. R.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, mounted as worn, very fine (5) £3000-3500

M.M. London Gazette 19 February 1917.

First Bar to M.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917.

Second Bar to M.M. London Gazette 13 May 1919.

Croix de Guerre London Gazette 14 July 1917.

Corporal Albert Walker, 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 July 1915. With the battalion he earned the Military Medal for gallant conduct at the capture of Desire Trench, 18 November 1916; his first Bar was won for gallantry in action at Cherisy, 3 May 1917, and his second Bar was awarded for his bravery during the battle of Amiens, August 1918.

His battalion was heavily involved in actions on the Western Front, being present at the battles of Loos, Somme, Passchendaele and the Third Ypres. On 1st July 1916, the first day of the battle of the Somme, ‘B’ Company, 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment famously dribbled four footballs across ‘no-man’s land’, in their advance upon Montauban. In that attack they suffered 446 men killed, wounded or taken prisoner, winning in the process, two D.S.O’s., two M.C’s., two D.C.M’s. and nine M.M’s.

With copied m.i.c. and roll extracts.