The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals 198
A Great War 1918 ‘Final Advance’ M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal C. Brown, 21st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
Military Medal, G.V.R. (45794 Pte. A. Cpl. - C. Brown. 21/M.G.C.); British War and Victory Medals (45794 Cpl. C. Brown. M.G.C.) small edge nick to M.M. otherwise nearly extremely fine (3)
£260-£300 M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.
Charlie Brown was born in 1890 and attested for General Service with the British Army on 9 December 1915. He was mobilised on 23 February 1916, posted to to 3/4th Somerset Light Infantry and transferred to the Machine Gun Corps at Bridgewater on 29 July 1916. Embarked for France, he joined 110 Company with the British Expeditionary Force in France on 24 September 1916 and was posted to the 21st Battalion in September 1918. He was promoted Corporal on 4 November 1918. A note in his ‘Soldier’s Pay Book’ states that he was awarded the Military Medal on 3 December 1918 - the award reflecting gallantry with the 21st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps most likely at the Battle of the Selle during the final advance in Picardy. He returned to England on 29 December 1918 and was discharged Class Z on 5 March 1919.
Sold together with the recipient’s ‘Soldier’s Pay Book for use on Active Service’ containing an original Army Form C.2123 - the typed instructions time-stamped 08.30am on 11 November 1918 informing the members of the 21st Battalion that ‘hostilities will cease at 11am today Nov 11th. Defensive precautions will be maintained. There will be no intercourse of any description with the enemy. Moves ordered in Divisional Order No. 2626 will take place.’
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Pair: Private A. King, 149th Company, Machine Gun Corps, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 3 August 1917
British War and Victory Medals (87202 Pte. A. King. M.G.C.) with flattened named card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (Albert King) with OHMS outer envelope addressed to ‘Mrs Louisa J King, 37 Dumfries St., Luton, Beds.’; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Albert King, Machine Gun Corps’, in OHMS transmittal tube, similarly addressed together with Machine Gun Corps and Tank Corps Records enclosure slip, extremely fine (4)
£140-£180
Albert King was born on 9 September 1892 at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and served with the 149th Company, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 3 August 1917. The husband of Louisa Jane King of 37 Dumfries Street, Luton, he is buried in Hibers Trench Cemetery, Wancourt, France.
Sold together with an official photograph of the recipient’s original wooden cross grave in Hibers Trench British Cemetery, Wancourt provided by the Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries in an OHMS envelope addressed to the recipient’s widow; a section of a letter written describing a visit to the grave shortly after the war; and Record Office transmittal slip for the recipient’s medals.
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Pair: Lance-Corporal C. W. Britton, Machine Gun Corps, late Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own), who was killed in action on the Western Front on 8 June 1918
British War and Victory Medals (65653 Pte. C. W. Britton. M.G.C.); Memorial Plaque (Charles William Britton); Memorial Scroll, ‘L/Cpl. Charles William Britton, Machine Gun Corps’, all mounted in an ornate gilded wooden glazed display frame with Buckingham Palace enclosure pasted to the reverse, extremely fine (4)
£160-£200
Charles William Britton was born in 1884 at Walthamstow, Essex. He attested for the Rifle Brigade at Hammersmith and served with them during the Great War (No. 21583) prior to transferring to the Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action on 8 June 1918 whilst serving on the Western Front with 62nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. The son of Charles and Elizabeth Britton and husband of Augusta Fanny Britton, of 3, Brooklyn Rd., Shepherd's Bush, London, he is buried in Gommecourt British Cemetery No. 2, Hebuterne, France.
Sold together with a mounted contemporary professional photograph of the recipient’s grave and another of Gommecourt No. 2 Cemetery; 4 Field Service Postcards and 8 hand-written letters (all envelopes stamped by Field Censor) sent by the recipient to his father in 1917 and 1918 and a patriotic postcard featuring union flags and the words ‘Your country called, you answered. God be with you.’
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