Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant E. B. Gregsten, Northern Cyclist Battalion, attached Manchester Regiment, who was wounded by gun shot at Bapaume on 30 August 1918

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. B. Gregsten.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut. E. B. Gregsten. N. Cyc. Bn.) all in named card boxes of issue, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Territorial Force War Medal Groups.

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Ernest Bernard Gregsten was born in 1895 at Kensal Rise, Middlesex. He was a student at King’s College London when he enlisted into the Inns of Court O.T.C. at the age of 17 in 1912, declaring prior service with Christ’s Hospital Contingent, O.T.C. He served as Sergeant Instructor from 1914 to 1916, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 5 September 1916, serving in the Northern Cyclist Battalion at Skegness. Posted to the 10th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 August 1917, and received a machine gun bullet wound through the lung and right knee at Bapaume on 30 August 1918. He was demobilised in March 1919, and died in Barnet, Middlesex, in 1976.

Sold with two photographic images of the recipient in uniform; and copied service papers.