Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Lance-Corporal G. J. Leeds, 1/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, later commissioned as Second Lieutenant into the 3rd London Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (200774 Pte. G. J. Leeds, 1/4 O. & B. L.I.); 1914-15 Star (2907 Pte. G. J. Leeds, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. G. J. Leeds) mounted for wearing, good very fine (4) £500-600

M.M. London Gazette 18 June 1917.

The following joint citation, shared with Privates Chamings and May, is taken from the War Record of the 1/4th Battalion: ‘After tha attack on Gillemont Farm on 19 April 1917 these stretcher-bearers moved about among the wounded under heavy shell and machine-gun fire, thus reaching men who would otherwise have died of wounds. It was 2.30 a.m. before they brought the last stretcher case in, and it was entirely due to the good work they accomplished that nearly every man was accounted for.’

This man was commissioned as Second Lieutenant on 28 November 1917, into the 3rd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).

Sold with original Army Orders by General Sir H. S. Rawlinson, Commanding Fourth Army, dated 4 May 1917, listing Private (L/Cpl.) G. J. Leeds as a recipient of the M.M.