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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 53

A Great War 1916 ´French Theatre´ M.M., and 1917 ´French Theatre´ Bar to Private A. Bunce, South Staffordshire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (19225 Pte. A. Bunce. 1/S.Staff:R.), darkly toned, pawn borker´s mark to edge at 9 o´clock, very fine Estimate £ 350-450 M.M. London Gazette 10.8.1916 19225 Pte. A. Bunce, S. Staff. R. M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 18.7.1917 19225 Pte. A. Bunce, S. Staff. R. 19225 Private Alfred Bunce, M.M. served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment in the French Theatre of War, from 29.11.1915; Bunce´s battalion as part of the 91st Brigade, 7th Division, were in action on the Somme from the 1st of July to the third week of September 1916, in particular on the 1st Day of the Battle when they led the assault on Mametz; took part in the attack on High Wood, 14th July, and when they attacked Delville Wood, 31st August.

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£900