Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An extremely rare Great War M.M. and Second and Third Award Bars group of four awarded to Temporary Sergeant E. G. Mallows, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars (16418 Sapr. E. G. Mallows, 2/Sig. Co. R.E.); 1914 Star (16418 Sapr. E. Mallows, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (16418 T. Sjt. E. G. Mallows, R.E.) good very fine (4) £5,000-£7,000

Just 186 M.M.s with 2 Additional Award Bars were awarded in the Great War, 14 of them to the Royal Engineers.

M.M. London Gazette 14 September 1916.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 13 March 1919.

M.M. Third Award Bar London Gazette 23 July 1919.

Edward G. Mallows, a native of Brixton, London, was born in 1885 and attested for the Royal Engineers at London on 16 January 1907. He served with the 2nd Signal Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 August 1914; his company would see action at Langemarck and Gheluvelt before the year’s end. Most notably in 1915 it was employed at the battle Loos and it may be on account of those operations that he was awarded the Military Medal. His Second and Third Award Bars were probably in respect of the St. Quentin Canal and Sambre operations at the end of 1918. He was discharged on 31 March 1920.

Sold with the recipient’s riband bar; original Discharge Certificate; a small photographic image of the recipient; and copied research.