Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private A. E. Harvey, Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in action in the German Spring Offensive

Military Medal, G.V.R. (11841 Pte. A. E. Harvey, 2/Wilts. R.); 1914-15 Star (11841 Pte. A. E. Harvey, Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (11841 Pte. A. E. Harvey, Wilts. R.), generally good very fine (4) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 18 June 1917.

Archibald Edward Harvey enlisted in the Wiltshire Regiment in September 1914 and went out to France with the 2nd Battalion in the following year. Having then been awarded the M.M. for his bravery during the Arras operations of April 1917, he was killed in action on 21 March 1918. Harvey, who was 31 years of age, left a widow, Emma, of Dalston, London, and is commemorated in Savy British Cemetery.