A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant H. S. Seymour, Machine Gun Corps, late Dorsetshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (16368 Pte. H. S. Seymour, 13/Co. M.G.C.); 1914 Star, with (copy) clasp (9550 Pte. W. S. Seymour, Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals (9550 Sjt. H. S. Seymour, Dorset. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (16368 Sjt. H. S. Seymour, M.G.C.), contact marks and polished, nearly very fine or better (5)
£500-600

M.M. London Gazette 21 September 1916.

Harry S. Seymour arrived in France on 16 August 1914, as a Private in the 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, in which capacity he would have seen considerable action during the retreat from Mons, not least on La Bassee Canal on 12-13 October, assuming he had not been wounded in earlier actions.

His subsequent award of the M.M. for gallant deeds in the 13th Company, Machine Gun Corps, might possibly be an early award for the Somme operations; his MIC confirms his India General Service Medal for the Waziristan operations 1919-21, following which he transferred to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.