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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 189

Victory Medal (8) (Capt H.V. Mitchell; Lieut. T.A. Stokes; G-12518 Pte. C. Ellis R.W. Kent R.; L-6724 Sjt. W.T. Fermor R.W. Kent R.; G-17816 Pte. L.E. Griggs. R.W. Kent R.; 1160 Pte. J.H. Lomax. R.W. Kent R.; 204911 Pte. C.F. Page R.W. Kent R.; GS-9951 Pte. F. Ridall R.W. Kent R.), generally very fine or better (8)

M.C. London Gazette 1.2.1919 T./Lt. Hubert Vincent Mitchell, 2nd Bn., E. Kent R., attd. 7th Bn.
'At Montauban, on 25th August, 1918, for gallant resource during the advance, when his men were held by a nest of hostile machine-guns. Regardless of heavy fire, he crawled forward and located the post, which was then destroyed, thus enabling the advance to continue.'

Captain Herbert Vincent Mitchell, M.C., born Shaw, Lancashire, December 1892; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers 28.10.1914 and served with the 21st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front and as part of the Salonika Army; Commissioned Second Lieutenant East Kent Regiment 5.8.1916; Lieutenant 5.2.1918; Captain 7.11.1918; awarded the Military Cross 1.2.1919; transferred into the Royal West Kent Regiment 1.8.1919; discharged 20.8.1919.

Lieutenant Thomas Alan Stokes, born June 1896; Commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment 12.9.1914; promoted Lieutenant 1.6.1916; served with the 1/5th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War in Mesopotamia from 5.12.1917; twice suffered malaria.

G-12518 Private Charles Ellis, served with the 8th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action 17.8.1916, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

1160 Private John Henry Lomax, born 1896; enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment 4.9.1914; served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 26.7.1915; gun shot wound to the left knee 3.7.1916; transferred to the East Lancashire Regiment 29.3.1919.

G-9951 Private Frederick Riddall, served with the 11th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action 31.7.1917, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

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