Pair: Private M. Needham, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was discharged on account of illness in July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (14-1528 Pte. M. Needham, York & Lanc. R.), good very fine (2) £60-80

Myrtle Needham, a miner by profession, enlisted in the York & Lancaster Regiment in Barnsley in October 1915, aged 32 years. Posted to the 14th Battalion, he was ordered to France in April 1916, but he was invalided home on account of T.B. and discharged in July 1916. Having then applied for his Silver War Badge in February 1917, he was summoned by a Military Medical Board that July, the consulting surgeon verifying his condition, but nothing further is known of his fate - though accompanying copied records do reveal that he had three small children to provide for.