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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 18

The ´Allied Intervention´ Murmansk Command M.C., Great War 1916 M.M. Group of Five to Lieutenant G.E. Fullman, Royal Field Artillery, Later Police Constable, Metropolitan Police a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ´Lieut. G.E. Fullman. M.C. M.M. R.F.A.´ b) Military Medal, G.V.R. (42010 Sjt: G.E. Fullman. 129/By: R.F.A.) c) 1914 Star and Bar (42010 Cpl. G.E. Fullman. R.F.A.) d) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G.E. Fullman.), generally good very fine, together with the following related documents and other items &c.: - Belgium, Kingdom, Albert I Veterans´ Cross, bronze, with Bestowal Document, named to George E. Fullman, and dated 18.6.1964 - Commission appointing George Edmund Fullman a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery, dated 27.2.1917 - Warrant appointing George Edmund Fullman a Warrant Officer, Class II, dated 22.11.1915 - The recipient´s Soldier´s Small Book - The recipient´s Third Class Certificate of Education, dated 1.2.1907 - The recipient´s Second Class Certificate of Education, dated 17.3.1910 - The recipient´s Assistant Instructor´s Certificate of Signalling, dated 3.12.1912 - Telegram from the recipient to his sweetheart, dated 4.9.1914, and later field postcard - The recipient´s diary, for his time in Russia, covering the period, 18.9.1918- 30.4.1919 - The recipient´s Metropolitan Police Certificate of Discharge, dated 19.8.1923 - Letter of reference, recommending Mr. G.E. Fullman, M.C., as suitable for working up a farm in Australia, dated 3.5.1923 - The recipient´s Royal Artillery Association membership card - Letter to the recipient from Clementine Churchill thanking him for gift he had sent for the Red Cross "Aid to Russia" Fund, dated February 1942 - A selection of photographs of the recipient from his time in Russia, including some of the recipient on skis, as well as various group and portrait photographs - The recipient´s miniature awards, the gallantry awards both G.VI.R. issues, mounted as worn - Princess Mary Christmas tin, and stationery folder - The recipient´s Balaklava, as worn in Russia - The recipient´s shaving brush, together with various badges, buttons, and cloth insignia (lot) Estimate £ 3,000-3,500 M.C. London Gazette 3.10.1919 Lt. George Edmund Fullman, M.M., " A " Section, Mobile Column, 6th Bde., R.F.A., Murmansk Command ´He has commanded the 65 m.m. section during the operations from Urosozoro to Medvyeja-Gora, 1st to 21st May, 1919, and has shown great gallantry and initiative in pushing forward his guns in close support of the infantry. On 3rd May, under heavy fire, he forced two armoured trains to withdraw, enabling our infantry to enter Maselga without further opposition. On 21st May he again did good work in dispersing the enemy, who were collected near Medvyeja-Gora station.´ M.M. London Gazette 11.10.1916 42010 Sjt. (now By. S./M.) G.E. Fullman, R.F.A. Lieutenant George Edmund Fullman, M.C., M.M., born Snodland, Kent, August 1888; enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery, February 1906; advanced Corporal; served with the Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 19.8.1914; advanced Sergeant, and awarded the Military Medal; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 27.2.1917; promoted Lieutenant, 27.8.1918; served with the Murmansk Command in North Russia, 1918-19, arriving in Murmansk, 26.9.1918, and award Military Cross; relinquished his Commission with the rank of Lieutenant, receiving a gratuity, 24.12.1919; joined the Metropolitan Police, as a Constable in the Kilburn Division, 10.5.1920; discharged with gratuity on account of ill health, 19.8.1923.

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