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World War One medals awarded to a former Hull coroner are being auctioned. Norman Jennings was a medical student when he was called up to serve as a surgeon probationer on the destroyer HMS ...
Herbert Alfred Disney, known as ‘Captain Disney’ was presented with a Military Cross & Bar, a Distinguished Conduct Medal and a Victory Medal for his service in the Great War. The "scarce and ...
Expert Bill Harriman was asked to look at the WW1 pilot's medals and memorabilia ... Bill looked at Graham's war medals which included the Victory medal and War medal which he explained ...
Three medals awarded to a WW1 Dunblane soldier were unveiled in ... His medals - the British War Medal, Victory Medal and Bronze Star - were bought by townsfolk after they learned of their auction ...
1914-18 War Medal and Victory Medal. The 6th Service Battalion, formed by companies at different towns in Shropshire, left the depot for Blacktown on September 10, 1914 and became a unit of the ...
"The medals themselves are not uncommon – the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal, plus the St John Service Medal and Star," she said. "What makes the group rare is the fact that ...
Two weeks ago he found three medals – a Victory Medal, a British War Medal ... Daryl said: “She was chuffed. My son likes WW1 memorabilia and she is happy for us to have them and we are ...
Tanya Dye spotted Private Arthur Ablitt’s Victory Medal while digging her patch in 1996. 2 Barry Earthy has received his great uncle’s WW1 medal 28 years after it was uncovered ...
Report by ITV News Meridian's Sally Simmonds into how the wartime medals of a British WW1 soldier made it around ... He was awarded a Victory medal, a Battle of the Somme medal and the General ...
A century-old “injustice” was set right Thursday when Grace Banker received the Victory Medal for her military service overseas during World War I. Carolyn Timbie of East Kingston accepted the ...