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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 24

Family Group:
A Great War 'Western Front' M.M. Group of Four to Private S. Flint, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (21886 Pte. S. Flint. 17/R.W. Fus:)
b) 1914-15 Star (21886 Pte. S. Flint. R.W. Fus:)
c) British War and Victory Medals (21886 Pte. S. Flint. R.W. Fus.), light pitting, very fine

Three: Rifleman W.J. Flint, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Killed in Action 30.6.1915
1914-15 Star (A-567 Pte. W.J. Flint. K.R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (A-567 Pte. W.J. Flint. K.R. Rif. C.), extremely fine, together with a letter from the Officer in-charge Rifles Records regarding the location of the recipient's grave (7)

M.M. London Gazette 11.2.1919 21886 Pte. Flint, S., 17th Bn., Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Islington).

21866 Private Stanley Flint, served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 2.12.1915; discharged, 26.4.1919.

A-567 Rifleman William James Flint, born Islington, Middlesex; served with the 7th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 30.6.1915; was buried '20 yards N.E. of the moat round the house situated in 1.15 by 88 of Sheet 28, France and Belgium map' (letter to the recipient's father from the Officer in-Charge Rifles Records, dated 30.8.1915 refers), and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

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