Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 981

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£2,200

A Western front M.M. group of four awarded to Lance-Corporal H. G. Kimber, The Queen’s R. W. Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action at Paschendaele in October 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (10740 L.Cpl. H. Kimber, 2/The Queen’s R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (L-10740 Pte. H. G. Kimber, The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-10740 Pte. H. G. Kimber, The Queen’s R.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Henry George Kimber) nearly extremely fine (5) £1000-1200

M.M. London Gazette 26 May 1917.

Lance-Corporal Henry George Kimber, 2nd Battalion, The Queen’s, was killed in action at Paschendaele on 26 October 1917, aged 31. His name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.