Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal H. Massey, 174th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (82714 L. Cpl., 174/T’lg. Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 Star 82714 Spr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (82714 Cpl., R.E.) mounted as worn, edge bruising, worn through polishing (4) £250-300

M.M. London Gazette 12 March 1917.

Herbert Massey was born in 1887 and enlisted into the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on 24 September 1914. Transferred to the Royal Engineers, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Sapper on 9 March 1915. When serving in the 174th Tunnelling Company R.E. he earned the Military Medal for bravery in the field. Having been awarded four wound chevrons, he was discharged at Chatham on 14 December 1918.

With original Certificate of Discharge and Protection and Identity Certificate (both damaged) and with copied m.i.c.