Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal R. H. English, 14th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force

Military Medal, G.V.R. (8885 Pte. R. H. English. 14/F.A. Aust: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (8885 Cpl. R. H. English. 14 Fld. Amb. A.I.F.) very fine (3) £1,000-£1,200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Ron Wright.

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M.M. London Gazette 21 September 1916.
The original Recommendation, dated 23 July 1916, states: ‘For devotion to duty in the most arduous circumstances, being ever the most willing to go forward and bring in wounded, often under fire, and though hardly able to continue from exhaustion, still his fine spirit and sympathy for the wounded enabled him to carry on.’

Robert Hutchinson English attested for the Australian Imperial Force on 27 September 1915, and served with the 14th Australian Field Ambulance during the Great War on the Western Front, being awarded the Military Medal. He returned to Australia on 12 June 1919.