Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

The mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Private E. Sykes, V.C., 27th battalion Northumberland Fusliers, Victoria Cross; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Coronation 1937, mounted for wear, in Baldwins, London case, good very fine (5) £80-120

V.C. London Gazette 8.6.1917.

Private Ernest Sykes was born in 1885 in Mossley, Saddleworth, Yorkshire. In the Great War he served with the 27th battalion Nothumberland Fusiliers. On 19.4.1917, near Arras, France, the battalion in attack was held up by intense fire from both front and flank and suffered many casualties. Sykes, despite this heavy fire, went forward and brought back four wounded. He then made a fifth journey and remained out under conditions which appeared to be certain death, until he had bandaged all those too badly injured to be moved.