Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private F. H. Brittain, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Military Medal, G.V.R. (202938 Pte. F. H. Brittain. 7/Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (7613 Pte. F. H. Brittain. Midd’x R.) good very fine

Pair: Deck Hand H. B. Brittain, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary
British War and Victory Medals (H. B. Brittain. D.H. M.F.A.) VM officially re-impressed; together with the recipient’s Aluminium identity disc; and a London School Board Queen Victoria Medal for punctual attendance, white metal, the reverse engraved ‘H. Brittain’, with 1896 suspension bar, edge nicks, very fine (7) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

Frank Horace Brittain attested for the Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) (Territorial Force) at West Hampstead, and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front.