Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. pair awarded to Gunner S. Proctor, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action on 31 August 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (108172 Dvr. C. S. Proctor, 86/By. R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (108172 Gnr. S. Proctor, R.A.), good very fine (2) £220-260

M.M. London Gazette 12 June 1918.

S. Proctor was killed in action on 31 August 1918, while serving as a Gunner in 86th Battery, 32nd Brigade, R.F.A., aged 25 years. The London Gazette announcement for his M.M. lists his initials as ‘C. S.’ whilst his entry in the Commonwealth War Graves Register lists the single initial ‘S.’ He was the husband of Ellen Proctor of Albany Road, Brentford, Middlesex and is buried in Windmill British Cemetery, Moncy-le-Pre, France.