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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 482

Armistice Day Memorial Medallion 1918, by C. L. Dolman, manufactured by the Royal Mint, obverse: Victory standing, supporting a wounded prisoner wearing broken chains, reverse: The Cenotaph, neartly engraved upon the rim 'Major Guy William Duberly 13-3-1915', 76mm., silver, very fine

The Armistice, bringing to a close the Great War, was signed on 11 November 1918. The medal first became available on 1 November 1928. Available in two sizes, 76mm. and 32mm., and in gold, silver and bronze; the price charged for the large silver medal (above) was £1.10.0. In the Mint Report for 1927 it was recorded that 547 large silver medals had been sold; 6,822 medals in total. Such was the demand for the medals, that in 1929 a further 1,141 medals were struck, in various sizes and metals, making the total issuance of 7,963 (Ref. B.H.M. 4131; Eimer 2008a).

Guy William Duberly of the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, was killed in action on 13 March 1915 and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. On the C.W.G.C. website and published casualty roll, the name is given as ‘Grey William Duberly’.

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£270

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£60