Auction Catalogue

29 June 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 563

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£580

A Great War M.M. awarded to Sergeant F. R. Sweet, Monmouthshire Regiment

Military Medal
, G.V.R. (1634 Sjt. F. R. Sweet, 1/1 Mon. R. - T.F.), about very fine £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 30 October 1916.

Almost certainly an award for the Somme, the 1/1st Battalion having moved forward with the assaulting troops at Gommecourt on 1 July 1916 - ‘casualties just under 100 men.’