Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private W. Acott, Royal West Kent Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (G-640 Pte. W. Acott. 6/R.W. Kent R.); 1914-15 Star (G-640. Pte. W. Acott. R.W. Kent. R.); British War and Victory Medals (GS-640 Pte. W. Acott. R.W. Kent R.); together with the recipient’s Kent Education Committee School Attendance Medal, silver, unnamed as issued, with date bars for 1906, 1907, and 1908, light pitting from star, very fine (5) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

William Acott attested for the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 June 1915, as well as on attachment to 37th Brigade Headquarters. For his services during the Great War he was awarded the Military Medal, most likely for his gallantry at the Battle of Sambre on 4 November 1918, in the final stages of hostilities.

Sold with a Major General Commanding 12th Division’s certificate for Gallantry and Devotion in the Field, with accompanying card; related Queen’s Own cap badge; and photographic images of the recipient, along with Private S. J. Nye of the same battalion, ‘giving a helping hand to two wounded German prisoners near La Boisselle, 3 July 1916.’