Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A great War ‘Battle of Amiens, 1918’ M.M. and ‘Epehy/St Quentin Canal’ Second Award Bar group of seven awarded to Sapper D. Townson, 12th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (448744 Spr: D. Townson. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (448744 Pnr. D. Townson. R.E.) half-hearted attempt to obliterate rank on these two; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, contact marks to the earlier medals, otherwise nearly very fine or better (7) £800-£1,000

M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919: ‘Spr., 12th D.S.Coy. (Gorleston)’.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 14 May 1919: ‘Spr., 12th D.S. Coy. (Colne).’

Dean Townson was born at Colne in 1887, and died at Blackpool in 1961, aged 74.

Sold with copied provincial newspaper portrait of Sapper Dean Townson, M.M. (and bar) stating that he was from Colne, together with copied research and some professional research stating that the M.M. was awarded for the battle of Amiens, August/September 1918, and the Bar for Epehy/St Quentin Canal.