Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1916 ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Bandsman A. V. Jones, 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, later commissioned Second Lieutenant, South Staffordshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (10404 Bndsmn: A. V. Jones. 2/R.W. Fus:) toned, light pitting, nearly very fine £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Kenneth Petrie Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 14 December 1916.

Albert Vincent Jones served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in the French theatre of war from 13 August 1914. The Battalion served as part of the 19th Brigade, 33rd Division on the Somme, July - November 1916. Jones was subsequently commissioned in the South Staffordshire Regiment, and his MIC indicates that he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after the war.