Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1916 ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar group of eight awarded to Second Lieutenant E. V. Leach, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (3772 Sjt. E. V. Leach, 10/R. War. R.); 1914-15 Star (3772 L. Sjt. E. V. Leach, R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. E. V. Leach); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine and better (8) £800-1000

M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1916.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 9 December 1916.

Ernest Victor Leach, a native of Stoke, first went to France as a Lance-Sergeant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in mid-July 1915. He was subsequently awarded the Military Medal and a Second Award Bar for his gallant deeds in the 10th Battalion, most likely for service on the Somme, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in October 1917.

Sold with original Army Council forwarding slip for the 1939-45 War awards, services that remain unverified.