Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single Orders and Decorations for Gallantry, A Great War February 1917 Casualty Military Medal, GVR (43656 Pte. C. Lawn. 8/Norf: R.) Toned, very fine but with red wax to shoulder of King.
Private Charles Lawn's Military Medal was gazetted in the London Gazette of 8 January 1917, this Gazette covers operations on the Somme from August to November 1916, in the main, they are for actions of October 1916 at the Transloy Ridges and on the Ancre. These include Le Sars and Regina Trench – The Great War Medal Collectors Companion Vol 1 page 406 by Howard Williamson refers. Private Charles Lawn died, Home, 1 February 1917. Sold with copied London Gazette entries, Commonwealth War Graves information, Soldiers Died and M.i.C. See also lot 3976.
Estimate: £150-200
Private Charles Lawn's Military Medal was gazetted in the London Gazette of 8 January 1917, this Gazette covers operations on the Somme from August to November 1916, in the main, they are for actions of October 1916 at the Transloy Ridges and on the Ancre. These include Le Sars and Regina Trench – The Great War Medal Collectors Companion Vol 1 page 406 by Howard Williamson refers. Private Charles Lawn died, Home, 1 February 1917. Sold with copied London Gazette entries, Commonwealth War Graves information, Soldiers Died and M.i.C. See also lot 3976.
Estimate: £150-200