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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 948

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Private B. Aylwin, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (R-34572 Pte. B. Aylwin. 2/K.R.Rif:C); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (7002 Pte B.G. Aylwin, 1st Rl. Sussex Regt); British War and Victory Medals (R-34572 Pte. B.G. Alywin. K.R.Rif.C.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R. (Benjamin G. Aylwin.), note spelling on Great War pair, last mounted separately, minor contact marks, overall very fine (5)

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

Benjamin Gordon Aylwin was born at Siddlesham, Chichester, Sussex in 1879 and served with the Volunteer Company of the Royal Sussex Regiment during the Second Anglo-Boer War. A note of the medal roll additionally stating: 'Employed as a civil Baker by Mr. Ashley, Market Square, Bloemfontein'. He saw later service with the 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War. In his retirement Aylwin was a Chelsea Pensioner.

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£700

Starting price
£180