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17 July 2024

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№ 101

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17 July 2024

Hammer Price:
£1,000

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal C. H. Manser, Royal Munster Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (3-5793 Pte. C. Manser. 1/R. Muns: Fus:); 1914-15 Star (5793. Pte. C. H. Manser. R. Muns. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (5793 Cpl. C. H. Manser. R. Mun. Fus.) polished and worn, good fine and better (4) £600-£800

M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1916.

Charles Hubert Manser attested for the Royal Munster Fusiliers and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 31 July 1915. Proceeding to the Western Front, he was awarded the Military Medal, and was discharged Class ‘Z’ on 1 August 1919.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card, which states that his Star was re-issued in February 1923, the original having been named ‘Mauser’; and copied research.