Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Bombardier S. Harley, Royal Garrison Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (77083 Bmbr. S. Harley. 229/Sge: By: R.G.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (77083 Bmbr. S. Hartley [sic] R.A.) number, rank, and initial unofficially renamed; Victory Medal 1914-19 (7083 Bmbr. S. Harley. R.A.); together with an Italian Army ‘Degli Altipiano’ Commemorative Medal, 1st type, silver, unnamed as issued, on bow riband, light contact marks, good very fine (4) £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 21 August 1917.

Sidney Harley attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery and served with the 229th Siege Battery during the Great War on the Western Front. He was wounded in the groin by shell fire near Arras on 29 April 1917, and was subsequently awarded the Military Medal.