A CASUALTY MILITARY MEDAL GROUP TO GUNNER MAGUIRE RFA
MM correctly impressed 9474 BMBR C C Maguire B.71/ BDE RFA
1914/15 Star Correctly impressed 9474 GNR C C Maguire RFA
Pair correctly impressed 9474 BMBR C C Maguire RA
Condition GVF+
Cyril Clifford was born in West Ham, Essex, in 1897. The son of Frederick and Emily Maguire, at the time of the 1911 census, the family were living at 20 Marlow Road in East Ham. Cyril was fourteen years old and working as a Warehouse Boy in ' City Clothing.'
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£450 - £550
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Hammer price:
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£420 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
When the Great
War broke out, Cyril enlisted in East Ham, joining the Royal Field Artillery.
He landed in France on the 8th of July, 1915. While serving with RFA B Battery
71st Brigade, Maguire was awarded the Military Medal, gazetted on the 9th of
December 1916.
Just over four
months later, he was sadly killed in action on the 19th of March 1917. Cyril is
buried in Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras.
