Military Cross Medal Awarded to WWI Lieutenant by King George V Sold for £2,500

Fellows’ Silver, Coins & Medals sale featured a Military Cross Great War Medal Trio which sold for £2,500. The Military Cross Medal was awarded to a WWI lieutenant by King George V. The medals were awarded to Lieut. Frank Richard Green Webb, of the Northumberland Fusiliers.

Webb was born in Quarry Bank, Dudley, in 1897 and he later lived in Sutton Coldfield, just north of Birmingham. He served during 1914-1919 as 2^nd lieutenant in the 18^th Northumberland Fusiliers. He served during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. In 1918 he returned to Armentières and was awarded the Military Cross on April 10^th for destroying two bridges at Erquinghem, whilst under constant fire from the enemy.

The medal trio includes the Military Cross, a British War Medal 1914-20, and a Victory Medal named to ‘Lieut. F. R. G. Webb’. They were estimated at £600 – £800 in the sale and sold for way over their estimate. Below is a list of photographs, printed ephemera and other items associated to the lieutenant which were included with the medals:

A framed photograph of Lieut. Webb receiving the Military Cross from King George V.

A copy of the citation and a framed Army Orders, both listing Webb as a Temporary Lieutenant.

A framed certificate from Headquarters, Second Army.

A book of war notes & diary extracted from his pocket book carried throughout 1914 to 1918.

A regimental Roll book and a Field Message book.

Trench and battle maps with a scrap book containing newspaper cuttings and letters from the war office.

A hallmarked silver vesta case engraved ‘Northumberland Fusiliers 18th Battalion 1914-1919’.

A hallmarked silver cigarette case with presentation engraving to Lieut. Webb.

An officer’s dress sword with various books including one entitled ‘Historical Records of the 18th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers’.

Postcard albums and sundry other items.