WW1 Royal Engineers British War Medal & Victory Medal.

Awarded to “547968 SPR G GARMIRIAN R.E.” Mounted as originally worn.

'Sapper Gregory Garmirian' Royal Engineers is confirmed as being awarded the Pair only. He was born at Constantinople in 1883 and granted British citizenship in April 1914. In the post war years he based himself in Hendon North London as a Turkish Armenian trader. It is interesting to note that this is a unique issue, no other man of this surname was issued with Great War medals in the army.