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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 347

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private W. T. Rowe, Rifle Brigade, late 2/5th Battalion, London Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (304455 Pte. W. T. Rowe. 5/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medal (304455 Pte. W. T. Rowe. 5-Lond. R.), minor contact marks, very fine (3)

M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919.

Wallis Thomas Rowe served with the 2/5th Battalion, London Regiment which was formed in September 1914 and attached to 174th Brigade, 58th (London) Division. The Battalion landed in France on 25 January 1917 and took part in the fighting on the Hindenburg Line and at the Third Battle of Ypres, before being disbanded at Moreuil on 6 February 1918. Rowe subsequently transferred to the Rifle Brigade, his place of residence noted as Brixton, London; sold with copied MIC.


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Sold for
£280

Starting price
£170