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№ 530

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18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£260

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Lance-Corporal E. C. Bower, 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (200888 L. Cpl., 1/4 Y. & L.R.-T.F.) very fine £200-240

M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

The recipient came from Sheffield.

The 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, by Captain D. P. Grant, records (p.86) that Bower’s M.M. was awarded for service in the actions of October 1917 at Passchendaele.