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

№ 1142

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£440

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. to Lance-Serjeant G. H. Stringer, Lancashire Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (14016 L. Sjt., 17/Lanc. Fus.) extremely fine £240-280

M.M. London Gazette 9 July 1917.

George Stringer was born in and enlisted at Birmingham. Serving with the 17th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers he was awarded the M.M. for bravery. He died of wounds on 23 October 1917. He was buried in the Artillery Wood Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaaderen, Belgium.