A Great War 'P.O.W.' Pair awarded to Private Thomas Connolly, 5th Motor Ambulance Company, Army Service Corps, who was also awarded the Military Medal for bravery in October 1916 but died on 23 February 1919, comprising: British War and Victory Medals, 1914-1919 (M1-7562 Pte. T. Connolly. A.S.C.); Pair loose, also offered with riband bar (including M.M.), and 4 pieces of regimental insignia, toned, extremely fine (7) M.M.: London Gazette: 11 October 1916 – ‘for bravery in the field’Private Thomas Connolly, of Crouch End, North London, enlisted for service with the Army Service Corps and disembarked at Boulogne on 4 November 1914. Serving with the 5th Motor Ambulance Convoy (the majority of the men in this unit taken from the W.&G. Du Cros Taxi Company), it’s ambulances evacuated wounded soldiers largely from the Ypres salient, later moving to the Somme in 1918. Private Connolly was awarded the M.M. for ‘bravery in the field’ on 11 October 1916, but was later taken prisoner of war and died on 23 February 1919 after the war had ended. He is buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery, and is entitled to an addition M.M. and 1914 Star (these absent).

Estimate: GBP 80 - 120