Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

A scarce Great War ‘French theatre’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant G. B. Knight, Motor Machine Gun Service and 1st Battery, Machine Gun Corps (Motors), who was killed in action on the Western Front, 23 March 1918
1914-15 Star (253 Gnr. G. B. Knight. M.M.G.S.); British War and Victory Medals (253 Sjt. G. B. Knight. M.M.G.S.-R.A.-); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (253 Sjt. G. B. Knight. No: 1 Motor M.G. By: M.G.C.); Memorial Plaque (George Barclay Knight) last mounted in a wooden surround, good very fine

Four: Sergeant C. W. R. Knight, Coldstream Guards
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar, Regular Army (2650094 Gdsmn. C. W. R. Knight. C. Gds.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (2650094 Sjt. C. W. R. Knight. Coldm Gds.) mounted as originally worn, surname partially officially corrected on last, good very fine or better (9) £700-£900

M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918:

‘In recognition of valuables services rendered with the Forces in France during the present war.’

George Barclay Knight was born in Northchapel, Petworth, in 1898. He initially enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regiment, and served during the Great War with the Motor Machine Gun Service in the French theatre of war from December 1914. Knight subsequently advanced to Sergeant and served with the 1st Battery, Machine Gun Corps (Motors). He was killed in action on the Western Front, 23 March 1918, and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.