Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal J. McGavin, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (103090 Cpl. J. Mc.Gavin. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (103090 Cpl. J. Mc Gavin. R.E.) light contact marks, good very fine (3) £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919.

James McGavin, a native of Kilmarnock, was born in 1885 and attested for the Royal Engineers on 6 November 1915. He served with the 217th Army Troops Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 March 1916, and was promoted Corporal on 23 April 1917.

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