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Auction: 22102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction VI - e-Auction
Lot: 481

A Great War M.M. and Bar group of five awarded to Staff-Serjeant W. T. Vickery, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. with second award bar (214 Sjt. W. T. Vickery. S. W. Mtd: Bde: F.A. R.A.M.C.- T.F.); 1914 Star, with clasp (214 Sjt W. T. Vickery. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (214 Sjt. W. T. Vickery R.A.M.C.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (363006 S.Sjt: W. T. Vickery. R.A.M.C.), the third with officially re-impressed naming, rather worn overall (5)

M.M. London Gazette 22 January 1917.

Second Award Bar to M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Thomas William Vickery was born at Hereford, Herefordshire in 1891, the son of John and Eliza Vickery of 34 Moorfield Street, All Saints, Hereford. Working as a Tailor prior to the outbreak of the Great War, he entered the war with the 7th Cavalry Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps on 6 October 1914 in France as a Sergeant from the Territorial Force. Promoted Staff Sergeant in 1914 he continued to see active service for the duration of the war, serving attached to South Wales Mounted Brigade, Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force); sold together with copied research including census data, M.I.C. and London Gazette entries as well as an original, corresponding riband bar and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve cap badges and wings.

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Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£320