The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar pair awarded to Sergeant H. W. Porter, 2/4th and 2/5th Battalions, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry on the Somme in July 1916, and a Second Award Bar for his gallantry at La Vacquerie on 2 December 1917, where he organised and commanded a party collecting stragglers, and formed a defensive flank, which he held until relieved in the evening. He was subsequently wounded by gun shot to the right thigh on 22 March 1918, on the second day of the German Spring Offensive

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (2024 Cpl. H. W. Porter. 2/4 Glouc: R. -T.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2024 Sjt. H. W. Porter. Glouc. R.) minor edge bruising, nearly very fine (2) £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment.

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M.M. London Gazette 21 September 1916.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 23 February 1918.

Harold Walter Porter was born in Pill, Somerset, in 1898 and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment (Territorial Force), serving with both the 2/4th and 2/5th Battalions during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916 (also awarded the British War Medal, Victory Medal, and Territorial Force War Medal). Awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry on the Somme in July 1916, he was awarded a Second Award Bar or his gallantry during the Battalion's action at La Vacquerie on 2 December 1917 where, according to a contemporary newspaper article, ‘he organised and commanded a party collecting stragglers, and formed a defensive flank, which he held until relieved in the evening.’ He was subsequently wounded by gun shot to the right thigh on 22 March 1918, on the second day of the German Spring Offensive. He died in Bath in September 1949.

Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.