Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. Group of four awarded to Private A. Neville, Lincolnshire Regiment, who was discharged due to wounds in November 1916

Military Medal G.V.R. (9401 Pte. A. Neville. 1/Linc: R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (6401 [sic] Pte. A. Neville. 1/Linc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Pte. A. Neville. Linc. R.) light contact marks, very fine or better (4) £400-£500

M.M. London Gazette 14 December 1916.

Albert Neville was born at Morton, Lincolnshire in 1886. He later resided at Gainsborough and enlisted in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment on 9 March 1904, remaining present at annual training until 1908. After the outbreak of the Great War he re-enlisted in the 1st Battalion of his former regiment and served on the Western Front 12 November 1914. He received a gun-shot wound to his right shoulder and was admitted to No.3 Casualty Clearing Station at Poperinghe, Belgium on 29 March 1915. He was discharged, no longer physically fit for war service, on 17 November 1916 and his award of the Military Medal was published in the London Gazette less than a month later. He was also awarded a Silver War Badge.