Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Sergeant F. R. Sweet, Monmouthshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (1634 Sjt. F. R. Sweet, 1/1 Mon. R. - T.F.), about very fine £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Monmouthshire Regiment formed by Lt. Col. P. A. Blagojevic, O. St. J., T.D..

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M.M. London Gazette 30 October 1916.

Almost certainly an award for the Somme, the 1/1st Battalion having moved forward with the assaulting troops at Gommecourt on 1 July 1916 - ‘casualties just under 100 men.’