Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal G. E. Whitfield, Monmouthshire Regiment

1914 Star, naming erased; British War Medal 1914-20 (64 Cpl., Monmouth. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased; Belgian Croix de Guerre 1914-18, mounted as worn, polished, good fine (4) £40-60

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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George Edwin Whitfield, a native of Pontypool, first entered the French theatre of war in early November 1914 and was subsequently awarded one of just 6 Belgian Croix de Guerre won by the regiment for the Great War (London Gazette 4 September 1919).