A Great War 1916 ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private J. F. E. McQuade, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 28 March 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (6943 Pte. J. Mc.Quade. 1/North’ld Fus:); 1914 Star, with clasp (6943 Pte. J. Mc.Quade. 1/North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (6943 Pte. J. McQuade. North’d Fus.); together with the recipient’s Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. Joseph McQuade M.M., Northumberland Fusiliers’, extremely fine (4) £400-500

M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Joseph Francis Edward McQuade was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was awarded the Military Medal in 1916. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 28 March 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Sold with Record Office enclosures for both the 1914 Star and the British War and Victory Medals; Buckingham Palace enclosure for the Memorial Plaque; Record Office notification concerning the death of the recipient; and photographs of the Arras Memorial.