Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Regimental Sergeant Major W. H. Blatchford, Royal North Devon Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals (2505 A.W.O. Cl.1. W. H. Blatchford R.N. Devon Yeo.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (225700 R.S. Mjr. W. H. Blatchford. R.N. Devon Yeo.); together with a Bronze Medallion obverse engraved ‘G.H.Q. Sch. of P. & B.T. France 1918’, reverse ‘R.S.M. Blatchford 1/1 Northd. Hus.’, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine, the MSM scarce to unit (4) £300-£400

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919
‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders’

William Henry Blatchford is recorded in the medal roll as serving in both the Royal North Devon Yeomanry and the Northumberland Hussars. He was disembodied on 9 March 1919.

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