Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Private T. P. Drake, The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (9723 Pte. T. P. Drake. 1/R. Lanc: R.); 1914-15 Star (9728 Pte. T. P. Drake. R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (9728 Pte. T. P. Drake. R. Lanc. R.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (9728 Prvate T. P. Drake 1st Bn. The King’s Own Regt.) last contemporarily engraved in running script, mounted for display, generally very fine or better (5) £380-£420

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 1992.

M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

Thomas P. Drake was a native of Walthamstow, London. He served with the 1st Battalion, The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment in India, and was employed with other members of the Battalion as Civil Police on Railway duty during the Delhi Durbar of 1911.

Drake served during the Great War with the Battalion in the French theatre of war from 15 January 1915.