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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 442

Russia, Medal of St. George, 2nd Class, gold, 28mm. (7144 Sgt. E.Fox. 2/York. R.), nearly extremely fine, with riband

Medal of St George 2nd Class London Gazette 25.8.1915 Serjeant, 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment
The Recommendation, dated 30.6.1915, states; 'For conspicuous gallantry during the winter of 1914-15, when he frequently made daring reconnaissances of the enemy's position at great personal risk.'
Second Lieutenant Ernest Fox, M.C., D.C.M and Bar, served in France and Belgium 8.10.1914 to 22.6.1915, in Gallipoli 18.9.1915 to 18.12.195, in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, March to June 1916, and again in France and Belgium 1.6.1916 to 17.5.1917 (wounded, M.I.D. London Gazette 23.6.1915 and 14.11.1916).

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