A Collection of Medals to the Guards Machine Gun Regiment

Three: Sergeant E. Shrimpton, Grenadier Guards and Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (328 Sjt. E. Shrimpton. Gds. M.G.R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (328 Sjt. E. Shrimpton. Gds. M.G.R.) mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine, the TFWM believed unique thus named to unit (3) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Guards Machine Gun Regiment.

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Only 4 Territorial Force War Medals awarded to the Guards Machine Gun Regiment (1 officer and 3 other ranks). Of the three other ranks (5510 Trooper H. J. Gardner, 2390 Guardsman J. V. Riches, and 328 Sergeant E. Shrimpton), Gardner’s Territorial Force War Medal should be named to the Royal Horse Guards and Riches’s named to the 6th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, those being the units with which they first served overseas; thus Shrimpton’s is believed to be the only one named to the Guards Machine Gun Regiment.

Edmund Shrimpton attested for the Grenadier Guards in London on 12 March 1915 and was appointed Lance-Corporal on 28 October 1915 he transferred to the 4th Company, Machine Gun Guards on 1 February 1917 and was promoted Sergeant on 5 July 1917. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 August 1917, and was discharged class Z on 10 March 1919, after 3 years and 364 days’ service.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extract.