Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private Herbert Pollington, Grenadier Guards, who accidently drowned on 31 January 1919

Military Medal, G.V.R. (20454 Pte., 3/G. Gds.); 1914-15 Star (20454 Pte., G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (20454 Pte., G. Gds.) good very fine (4) £400-450

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Herbert Pollington was born in Northallerton, Yorkshire. A Farm Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Grenadier Guards at Thirsk on 14 November 1914, aged 18 years, 1 month. With the Grenadier Guards he served in France/Flanders, 5 October 1915-18 September 1916; 19 January-2 December 1917, and 1 April 1918-until the end of the war, and thence with the Army of Occupation. He was wounded on 14/17 September 1916, with a gunshot wound to the buttocks. For his services with the 3rd Battalion he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. Information from the family indicates that Pollington accidently drowned on 31 January 1919, whilst trying to save some German children who had fallen through the ice on a frozen pond. He was buried with full military honours in the Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany, on 8 February 1919.

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