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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 414

A Great War 1916 Somme, ´Battle of Morval´ M.M. to Private C.F. Hill, Machine Gun Corps, Late Northumberland Fusiliers, Killed in Action at Polygon Wood, 27th September 1916 Military Medal, G.V.R. (6565 Pte. C. Hill. 62/Coy. M.G.C.), very fine Estimate £ 260-300 M.M. London Gazette 14.12.1916 22227 Pte. Hill, C.F., M.G. Corps (Backworth) 22227 Private Charles Finlay Hill, M.M., born Backworth, Northumberland; enlisted as 6565 Private, Northumberland Fusiliers; served in France from 9.9.1915; transferred 62nd Company, Machine Gun Corps as part of 21st Division, 4.3.1916, and won his Military Medal for Battle of Morval, Somme, September 1916; killed in action, 27.9.1916, and commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Private Hill´s Military Medal bears his Fusilier number, rather than his Machine Gun Corps number. Provenance: Spink (Private treaty sale), September 2002

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