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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 399

(x) The mounted group of four miniature dress medals worn by 2nd Lieutenant S. B. Tonge, M.C., Worcestershire Regiment, late Lincolnshire Regiment and Coldstream Guards

Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals; Defence Medal 1939-45, the first three mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (4)


PROVENANCE:
Dixon's Gazette, when sold in the same edition as the recipient's full-size awards.

Samuel Bardsley Tongue initially served in the ranks with the 3rd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, before being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards. He subsequently served with the 2/8th Worcestershire Regiment on the Western Front from 27 July 1918 and was awarded his M.C. for gallant work at Maresches on 1 November 1918 when, having personally shoot three of the enemy, he took 46 prisoners; sold with copied research.


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Sold for
£30