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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 402

A Great War 1918 Mesopotamia ´Fat-ha Gorge´ Action M.M. Group of Four to Corporal J.W. Havers, Machine Gun Corps, and Royal West Kent Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (61183 Cpl. J.W. Havers. M.G.C.); 1914-15 Star (9583 Pte. J.W. Havers. R.W. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (9583 Cpl. J.W. Havers. R.W. Kent R.), edge bruising, good fine, together with a related shooting medal, 38mm, silver, the reverse engraved ´"G" Company 4th. Res. Bn. M.G.C. Best Agregate. 1921 Cpl. J. Havers´ (5) Estimate £ 400-450 M.M. London Gazette 20.8.1919 61183 Cpl.Havers, J.W., Machine Gun Corps (Maidstone) (Mesopotamia). 61183 Corporal John William Havers, M.M., born Maidstone; enlisted as 9583 Private, Royal West Kent Regiment; transferred Machine Gun Corps and served in Mesopotamia; later, transferred 4th (Reserve) Battalion, Machine Gun Corps Corporal Havers won his Military Medal for the Action at Fat-ha Gorge, as part of the forces under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir A.S. Cobbe, V.C., K.C.B., C.S.I., D.S.O., 23-31.10.1918, one of the last actions to be fought by a Turkish Army on the Tigris before their surrender, 30.10.1918, where over 11,000 of the enemy taken prisoner. One of 11 M.M.s awarded to the Machine Gun Corps for the Action at Fat-ha Gorge

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