Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

A Great War M.M. to Corporal W. Mather, 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (35335 Pte., 10/Nth’d. Fus.) extremely fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram.

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M.M. London Gazette 12 December 1917.

William Mather was born in Bishop Aukland. Serving as a Corporal with the 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he was killed in action in Italy on 29 October 1918. Formerly Private 3294, Durham Light Infantry. He was interred in the Tezze British Cemetery, north of Treviso.