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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 697

A Great War M.M., Croix-de-Guerre group of five to Corporal F. W. Hill, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (10588 Cpl F.W. Hill. 6/K.O. Sco: Bord.); 1914-15 Star (10588 Pte F.W. Hill. K.O. Sco: Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (10588 Cpl. F.W. Hill. K.O. Sco. Bord.); Belgium, Kingdom, Croix-de-Guerre, overall very fine (5)

M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919.

Croix-de-Guerre London Gazette 12 July 1918.

Frederick William Hill served with both the 1st and 6th battalions King's Own Scottish Borderers during the Great War; the former participated in the abortive Gallipoli Campaign before seeing further action on the Western Front; the latter served in France from May 1915 and took part in the battles of Loos, The Somme, and Arras amongst others.

Corporal Hill's first Theatre of War was Egypt (25 April 1915).

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£520

Starting price
£210