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Sold on 17 September 2009

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A Collection of Medals to the 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment

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№ 531

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18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£240

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private T. E. McAvoy, 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (202033 Pte., 1/4 Y. & L.R.-T.F.) nearly extremely fine £200-240

M.M. London Gazette 28 July 1917.

The 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, by Captain D. P. Grant, records (p.71) that McAvoy’s M.M. was awarded for a raid on enemy trenches at Neuve Chapelle, 11/12 June 1917. Awards for the raid numbered three M.C’s., two D.C.M’s. and five M.M’s. With copied extracts from the regimental history detailing the raid.