Orders, Decorations and Medals

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Jean Loubière 1914-1918 Armée Britannique) contemporary but privately engraved naming, very fine and scarce £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Jean Loubière, a French national, served in the Great War as an Interpreter on the Western Front, attached to the 30th Casualty Clearing Station of the British Army. His M.S.M. was notified in List No. 49, ‘British Decorations awarded to the Allied Powers’, dated War Office, 1 December 1919. These ‘honorary’ awards were usually issued unnamed.