A rare Great War gas operations M.M. group of four awarded to 2nd Corporal R. W. Careswell, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (129131 2 Cpl. R. W. Careswell, ‘N’ Spec. Coy. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (129131 2 Cpl., R.E.); Belgian Croix de Guerre 1914-18, with palm nearly extremely fine (4) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Engineers.

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M.M. London Gazette 17 December 1917.

Robert Walter Careswell died of wounds on 15 November 1917, while serving with ‘N’ Special Company, R.E., a gas discharging unit that used cylinders. Aged 21 years, he was interred in the Steenkerke Belgian Military Cemetery; no London Gazette entry appears to exist for his Belgian Croix de Guerre.