Special Collections

Sold between 4 & 4 December 2002

3 parts

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Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines

Michael Haines

Lot

№ 71

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4 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£620

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private J. A. Holden, 11th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, killed in April 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (S-30010 Pte., 11/Rif. Bde.); British War and Victory Medals (S-30010 Pte., Rif. Brig.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (James Arthur Holden) extremely fine (4) £350-400

M.M. London Gazette 12 December 1917.

James Arthur Holden, born Camberwell, enlisted Lambeth (Brixton, Surrey), was killed in action in France on 1 April 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated by name on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.