A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private P. Fitzpatrick, Cheshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (W-537 Pte. P. Fitzpatrick. 13/Ches. R.); 1914-15 Star (W-537 Pte. P. Fitzpatrick. Ches: R.); British War and Victory Medals (W-537 Pte. P. Fitzpatrick. Ches. R.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette, 18 October 1917.

Peter Fitzpatrick, a soap loader for Messrs. Lever Brothers of Port Sunlight, Cheshire, from Tranmere, Birkenhead, was born in 1890. He attested at Port Sunlight, on 4 September 1914, into the Cheshire Regiment for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 13th (Wirral) Battalion from 25 September 1915. He was discharged, no longer fit for service, on 21 October 1918 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, No. B29782.

The Birkenhead News of 10 October 1917 reported the award of his Military Medal, and gave a photograph of the recipient in uniform. ‘Former Port Sunlight Employee Awarded the Military Medal. Mrs. P. Fitzpatrick, 70 Mason Street, Tranmere, has been informed that her husband, Pte. Peter Fitzpatrick, has been awarded the Military Medal ‘for conspicuous gallantry and bravery on the field’. Pte. Fitzpatrick joined the Cheshires in September 1914, and has been in France over two years. Before joining the colours he was for twelve years employed by Messrs. Lever Bros, Port Sunlight.’

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