Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of six awarded to Private A. E. Roberts, Cheshire Regiment, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (79110 Pte. A. E. Roberts. 23/Ches: R.); 1914-15 Star (20756 Pte. A. E. Roberts, R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (20756 Pte. A. E. Roberts. R.W. Fus.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John, with one Additional Award Bar (48093 Pte. A. Roberts. P. For. W. S.J.A.B. 1951.) contact marks and general wear throughout, therefore fine (5) £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919.

Albert Edward Roberts was born in 1891 and served in France from 2 December 1915 with the 14th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Transferred to the 23rd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment upon its creation on 1 January 1917, Roberts returned to the Western Front as part of 121st Brigade, 40th Division, witnessing heavy action during the Hundred Days Offensive from 8 August to 11 November 1918. Awarded the Military Medal in January 1919, Roberts was demobilised a few days later on 4 February 1919.

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