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Auction: 1005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 58

A Great War Russian Cross of St. George and Medal of St. George for Bravery Group of Six to Chief Petty Officer C. Wright, Royal Naval Air Service 1914-15 Star (F.2748 C. Wright. C.P.O.3. R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (F.2748 C. Wright. C.P.O.3. R.N.A.S.); Russia, Imperial, Cross of St. George, Fourth Class, silver, reverse officially numbered ´1126383´; Russia, Imperial, Medal of St. George for Bravery, Fourth Class, silver, reverse officially numbered ´440376´; Russia, Imperial, Medal for Zeal, N.II.I, silver, unnamed as issued, on St. Stanislas riband, generally good very fine, together with the recipient´s riband bar for the first four awards, and the following official documents &c.: - Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, named to ´C.P.O. Mech. Craig Wright, O.N. F2748´ - Original copy of the London Gazette, dated 17.5.1918, together with Admiralty enclosure - Named Russian enclosure for the Medal for Zeal, dated 25.2.1916 - Recipient´s original Certificate of Service - Photograph of the recipient (6) Estimate £ 600-800 M.I.D. London Gazette 17.5.1918 P.O. Mech. Craig Wright, O.N. F.2748, Royal Naval Air Service. F.2746 Chief Petty Officer Third Class Craig Wright, born Bessbrook, Armagh, Ireland, July 1870; enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service as Petty Officer Air Mechanic, 14.12.1914, serving in H.M.S. Pembroke III; Awarded the Russian Medal for Zeal, February 1916; Medal of St. George for Bravery, August 1916; Cross of St. George, July 1917; transferred to H.M.S. President II, with the rate of Chief Petty Officer Third Class, 20.9.1917; demobilised, 28.3.1919.

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