Auction Catalogue

2 March 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 912

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£130

Pair: Driver A. E. Kirby, Royal Field Artillery

British War and Victory Medals
(118101 Dvr., R.A); Memorial Plaque (Alfred Ernest Kirby), extremely fine (3) £100-120

Alfred Ernest Kirby was born in and enlisted at Manchester. Serving with “D” Battery, 52nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery, he died of wounds, France/Flanders, on 6 November 1918. He was buried in the Saultain Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. Alfred Ernest was the son of Edward and Ellen Kirby of Gorton, Manchester.

Medals and commemorative scroll mounted in matching glass-fronted wooden frames. Sold with copied m.i.c. and other research.