Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Bar group of three awarded to Private W. H. Lewis, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (4353 Pte., 9/R. W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (4353 Pte., R. W. Fus.) first with signs of brooch mounting to obv., suspension refitted, slight edge bruising, very fine (3) £550-650

M.M. London Gazette 2 November 1917.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 29 August 1918.

Private W. H. Lewis, 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was born in Newport. In action in France, he was awarded the M.M. on 4 September 1917 for his bravery when he was wounded in action (possibly in the attack of 31 August 1917?). He was subsequently awarded a bar to the M.M. for a later action in France. Sold with some copied research.