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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 112

A Great War 'Western Front' 1916 M.M. Group of Six to Warrant Officer Class II G.E. Rainford, Lancashire Home Guard, Late Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps
a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (16957 Sjt: G.E. Rainford. 2/Co: M.G.Corps.)
b) 1914 Star, with Bar (4322 L.Cpl. G.E. Rainford. L.N. Lan: R.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (9322 A.W.O. Cl.2 G.E. Rainford. L.N. Lan. R.)
d) Defence Medal
e) Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st 'Field Marshal's bust' type (7807891 W.O. Cl.II. G.E. Rainford. Loyal R.), nearly very fine, the five G.V.R. awards all mounted as worn, with the recipient's related G.V.R. miniature awards [the Star a 1914-15 Star]; named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'Mr. G.E. Rainford, Range H.Q. Edgworth, Turton, Nr. Bolton, Lancs'; and the following documents &c.:
- Warrant Appointing George Edward Rainford a Warrant Officer Class II, dated 14.1.1926
- The recipient's Certificate of Service Book
- The recipient's Second Class Army Certificate of Education
- The recipient's First Class Army Certificate of Education
- Two Home Guard Invitations
- Four Testimonial Letters
- Three photographs of the recipient (6)

M.M. London Gazette 14.9.1916 16957 Sjt. G.E. Rainford, M.G. Corps

7807891 Warrant Officer Class II George Edward Rainford, M.M., born Chorley, Lancashire, April 1892; enlisted in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 30.4.1908, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12.8.1914; posted to the Machine Gun Corps, 23.2.1915; awarded the Military Medal for service on the Western Front; promoted Warrant Officer Class II, 14.1.1926; discharged, 18.8.1930, after 22 years and 111 days' service; subsequently served with the 15th (Bolton) Battalion, Lancashire Home Guard.

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