Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘1st Day of the Somme’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal G. Wilson, East Lancashire Regiment, ‘for conspicuous bravery in attending to the wounded at Beaumont Hamel on July 1st, 1916’

Military Medal, G.V.R. (11070 L. Cpl., 1/E. Lanc. R.); 1914-15 Star (11070 Pte., E. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals (11070 Cpl., E. Lan. R.) some contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £600-800

M.M. London Gazette 21 September 1916.

George Wilson, of Accrington, joined the Army in 1914 and serving with the 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 25 November 1914.

He was awarded the Military Medal for his conspicuous bravery in attending to the wounded at Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the battle of the Somme, suffering a wound to the knee in the process.

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