Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Battle of Passchendaele’ M.M. awarded to Sergeant, later Second Lieutenant, H. T. Naish, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (56895 Sjt: H. T. Naish. 14/R.W. Fus:) nearly extremely fine £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 28 September 1917.

Harold Thomas Naish was born in Cardiff in 1895, the second son and fifth child of commercial traveller Jacob Henry Naish of 159 Mackintosh Place, Cardiff. Listed in 1911 as a railway clerk in the employment of the Great Western Railway, Naish served throughout the Great War with the 14th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Deployed as part of the 38th (Welsh) Division, the 14th Battalion suffered heavy casualties at Mametz Wood in July 1916, before participating in the Third Battle of Ypres and the Final Advance in Picardy. Awarded the Military Medal for gallantry, Naish was later discharged to a commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 29 May 1919, but died in 1925; his MIC notes: ‘Officer i/c. Infantry Records Shrewsbury returns BW & VM for disposal. d/-28.2.23.).

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