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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 390

A Great War 1918 ´French Theatre´ M.M. and Bar Group of Four to Sergeant S.H. Whiting, Machine Gun Corps, and Hertfordshire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (21993 L. Cpl. S. Whiting. 30/M.G.C.); 1914-15 Star (2532 Pte. S. Whiting. Herts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2632 Sjt. S.H. Whiting. Herts. R.), good very fine and better (4) Estimate £ 500-600 M.M. London Gazette 29.8.1918 21993 L./C. S. Whiting, M.G. Corps (Hertford). M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20.8.1919 21993 Sjt. S. Whiting, M.M., 33rd Bn., M.G.C. (Hertford). (M.M. gazetted 29th August, 1918.) 21993 Sergeant Sidney Whiting, M.M., enlisted as 2532 Private, Hertfordshire Regiment; served with 30 Battalion Machine Gun Corps upon its formation, 1.3.1918. Sergeant Whiting´s Military Medal was probably awarded for the Battles of Kemmel Ridge and the Scherpenberg, April 1918. One of 146 M.M.s and Bar to the Machine Gun Corps.

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