A Great War 1918 ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. awarded to Private J. R. Ingham, Manchester Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (251301 Pte. J. R. Ingram [sic]. 1/6 Manch: R.) good very fine £400-500

D.C.M. London Gazette 5 December 1918:
‘During a critical time in an advance east of Colincamps on 21 August 1918, this man seeing that one flank of his Company was exposed, on his own initiative, took his Lewis Gun out and covered he flank until other troops arrived. He kept about 60 or 70 of the enemy in dug-outs by his prompt action, and they were unable to get away, and were taken prisoners. He himself was exposed to heavy shell fire throughout.’

James Richard Ingham (also officially referred to as Ingram) was born in 1891 and attested for the Manchester Regiment on 4 October 1915. He served with the 1/6th Battalion as a Lewis Gun operator during the Great War on the Western Front, was wounded, promoted acting Corporal, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He was disembodied on 9 March 1919. He died of pneumonia in 1927, just six days after his wife had died of the same illness.

Sold together with the recipient’s Certificate of Disembodiment; Soldier’s Demobilization Account paper; and newspaper cutting with a photographic image of the recipient.