Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private F. Simcoe, East Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action in August 1917 - as a member of the 8th Battalion, it is worth speculating whether he had earlier survived that unit’s famous “football advance” over No Man’s Land on the 1 July 1916

Military Medal, G.V.R. (5523 Pte., 8/E. Surr. R.); 1914-15 Star (5523 L. Cpl., E. Surr. R.); British War and Victory Medals (5523 Pte., E. Surr. R.), nearly extremely fine (4) £400-500

M.M. London Gazette 26 May 1917.

Frederick Simcoe, who was born in Bedford and enlisted in the East Surreys at Northampton, first entered the French theatre of war in July 1915. Subsequently awarded his M.M. for services in the 8th Battalion, he was killed in action on 7 August 1917, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.