Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 427
A Great War D.C.M. Group of Five to Sergeant G.A. Walker, Royal Engineers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (72003 Sjt: G.A. Walker. G.H.Q. Sig. Co: R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (72003 Sjt. G.A. Walker. R.E.); Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R. (George Alfred Walker, D.C.M.), extremely fine (5) Estimate £ 500-550 D.C.M. London Gazette 16.5.1916, 72003 Sjt. G.A. Walker, Genl. Hdqrs. Sig. Coy., R.E. ´For conspicuous and consistent gallantry, notably on one occasion when, with Sjt. Wright, he collected a party of men after a high explosive shell had wrecked the telegraph office, and, working under shell fire, re-established communication within half an hour at a critical time.´
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£780