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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 422

(x) A Great War 1917 M.M. group of four awarded to Private J. Nash, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Connaught Rangers, a veteran of Gallipoli: Nash was killed in action on 20 November 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (43148 Pte. J. Nash. 8/R. Innis: Fus:); 1914-15 Star (174 Pte. J. Nash. Conn. Rang.); British War and Victory Medals (5-174 Pte. J. Nash. Conn. Rang.), good very fine (4)

M.M. London Gazette 19 November 1917 (France).

Joseph Nash, a native of Cork, served on Gallipoli with the Connaught Rangers from 9 July 1915. Transferred to the Inniskilling Fusiliers, he won his Military Medal with the 8th Battalion before being killed in action on 20 November 1917, the day after this richly-deserved award appeared in print. Nash is buried in the Croisilles British Cemetery.

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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£270