Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Lance Corporal G. Minns, Royal Army Medical Corps, who died of wounds received during the Battle of Passchendaele on 18 August 1917

1914 Star (1972 Pte. G. Minns. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (1972 Pte. G. Minns. R.A.M.C.) extremely fine (3) £80-£100

Gordon Minns was born in the Parish of St. Michael’s, Wood Green, London, around 1873, and enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps at Portsmouth. Posted to France with the 26th Field Ambulance from 5 November 1914, he was advanced Acting Lance Corporal 1 June 1915 and served at Wimereux from January 1917. Remaining on the Western Front, Minns died of wounds received during the Battle of Passchendaele on 18 August 1917; the husband of Florence Minns of 14 St. James Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, he is buried at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No. 3, in West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.