Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal T. Harris, Irish Guards

Military Medal, G.V.R. (6135 Cpl.-L. Sjt. T. Harris, 1/Ir. Gds); 1914-15 Star (6135 Pte., I. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (6135 Pte., Ir. Gds.) nearly extremely fine (4) £800-1000

M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

Thomas Harris was born at Waterford, Co. Leith and enlisted in the Irish Guards in December 1914, aged 26 years. Joining the 1st Battalion in France in June 1915, he served there until June 1918, gaining the M.M. and advancement to Lance-Corporal in October 1916, to Corporal in July 1917 and to Sergeant in October of the same year. Returning home in the Summer of 1918, Harris was convicted by a District Court Martial that August and reduced to Lance-Corporal. Happier events followed, however, not least when he was presented with his M.M. by Major-General G. P. T. Fielding, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. in a parade held at Horse Guards on 7 January 1919. He was discharged in the following month.