A Collection of Medals to the Devonshire Regiment

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.C. group of six awarded to Captain W. T. Roberts, Devonshire Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Captain W. T. Roberts, Devon Regt.’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., Devon R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); Defence; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, complete with brooch bar, some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £850-950

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Devonshire Regiment.

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M.C. London Gazette 26 August 1918. ‘For distinguished services in Mesopotamia’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 12 March 1918; 27 August 1918.

Served in the 4th Battalion Devonshire Regiment. Believed to have been attached to ‘Dunsterforce’.

W. T. Roberts was a Master at Exeter School, he retired in 1929.