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26 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£700

A Great War M.M. and Bar awarded to Sergeant H. J. Lindsey, Yorkshire Light Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (23636 Sjt. H. J. Lindsey, 8/York L.I.), contact marks, edge bruise and polished, good fine
£600-800

M.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917.

Bar to M.M.
London Gazette 21 October 1918.

Harry James Lindsey first entered the French theatre of war in July 1915, as a Corporal in the 8th Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and, having won his first M.M. for gallantry near Hill 60 between 7-10 June 1917, added a Bar to his decoration for subsequent gallant deeds as a C.S.M. in June 1918, when the Battalion was engaged in heavy fighting against the Austrians on San Sisto Ridge, not least on the 15th.

Lindsey later served in the 2nd Dragoons.