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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 580

A scarce Great War M.M. awarded to Corporal G. H. Hickman, 101st (Buckinghamshire & Berkshire Yeomanry) Company, Machine Gun Corps, later Lieutenant, Indian Army

Military Medal, G.V.R. (81661 Cpl. G. H. Hickman. 101/Coy M.G.C.), good very fine

Purchased Southern Medals, May 1991 (M.M. only).

M.M. London Gazette 19 November 1917.

George Henry Hickman, a native of Gordon Avenue, Southampton, served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 101st (Buckinghamshire & Berkshire Yeomanry) Company, Machine Gun Corps. He likely earned his M.M. during the Battles for Ypres and was recorded on the War Office Casualty List as having been wounded, this being reported on 6 October 1917. He was eventually discharged to a commission in the Indian Army.

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£320

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