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12 October 2022

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№ 52

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12 October 2022

Hammer Price:
£1,200

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar awarded to Corporal W. Whitcher, Hampshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (29562 Pte. W. Whitcher. 2/Hants: R.); British War and Victory Medals (29562 Cpl. W. Whitcher. Hamps. R.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with silver star emblem on riband, toned, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-£800

M.M. London Gazette 16 January 1917.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 18 October 1917.

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 17 December 1917.

Walter Witcher attested for the Hampshire Regiment at King’s Somborne and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916.