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Auction: 24002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 174

A superb P.O.W.'s Medal of the Order of the British Empire's group of five awarded to Chief Petty Officer G. R. Munday, Hawke Battalion, who was taken Prisoner-of-War at Antwerp in 1914

Medal of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Military Division), silver; 1914 Star, clasp (L2.1068. G. R. Munday, C.P.O. R.N.V.R. Hawke. Bttn. Rn. D.); British War and Victory Medals (L.Z. 1068 G. R. Munday. C.P.O. R.N.V.R.); Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (2/1068. G. R. Munday. C.P.O. R.N.V.R. London Div.), good very fine (5)

Medal of the Order of the British Empire London Gazette 15 February 1919.

Gideon Rock Munday was born on 7 November 1882 and was a clerk with the Singer manufacturing company in Bristol when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 22 December 1903. He initially listed his address as 119 Rylston Road, Fulham but later changed it to 80 High Street, Newport, Monmouth

Joining the Hawke Battalion in the Royal Naval Division on 22 August 1914 rated as Chief Petty Officer and served with them during the Great War in Belgium. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War in the operations at Antwerp on 9 October 1914 and in December 1914 was reported as a prisoner at Doeberitz Camp. Transferred to Holland on 4 March 1918, he was repatriated to England and arrived at Hull on 19 November 1918 and demobilised from the 2nd Reserve Battalion, Royal Naval Division on 12 January 1919.

Munday was awarded the medal of the Order of The British Empire for valuable services whilst a prisoner of war in Germany for promoting the welfare of his comrades. AB. C.E. Tooke, R.N.V.R. was similarly awarded the Medal of the Order of the British Empire, Tooke's Medals were sold in these rooms in April 2023.

In June 1919 his address was noted at the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Truro, Cornwall. In the 1939 Register he is recorded as a Territorial Supervisor in Newport, Wales and in 1968 he is recorded as living in Port Macquarie, Lyne, New South Wales, Australia, although by the time he died on 8 March 1975 he was back in the UK; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£480