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19 July 2017

Hammer Price:
£280

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Gunner W. F. Kearsey, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (815175 Gnr: W. F. Kearsey. D. 269/Bde: R.F.A.–T.F.); British War and Victory Medals (815175 Gnr. W. F. Kearsey. R.A.) good very fine and better (3) £240-280

M.M. London Gazette 19 March 1918 (Birmingham).

William Francis Kearsey was born in Birmingham in 1897 and attested there for the Royal Field Artillery. He served during the Great War on the Western Front with ‘D’ (Howitzer) Battery, 269th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, and was awarded the M.M. in March 1918. He died in King’s Norton, Worcestershire, in 1923.