Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal P. G. Pill, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (29426 Cpl. F. G. Pill. R.W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (29426 Cpl. F. G. Pill. R.W. Fus.) good very fine (3) £280-£320

M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918.

Francis George Pill was a native of Birmingham who enlisted on 1 November 1915 for the duration of the war. He was appointed Lance-Corporal on 1 May 1917, and promoted to Corporal in August of the same year. His record sheet shows that he was born in 1886 and during his service received a gunshot wound to the right arm, probably in November 1917. He was discharged on 4 February 1919, his address being given as High Street, Alcester, Warwickshire, and was issued with Silver War Badge No. B133213 on 11 March 1919.