Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private T. Greenwood, Cheshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (201715 Pte., 1/4 Ches. R.-T.F.) claw tightened, slight edge bruising, very fine £180-220

M.M. London Gazette 19 March 1918.

Thomas (Josh) Greenwood enlisted into the Cheshire Regiment on 10 October 1907. He served overseas with the 2nd Battalion in India, February 1909-November 1914; with the B.E.F. in France, January-May 1915 where he was gassed and wounded in the neck; with the Egypt Expeditionary Force, February 1916-June 1918; in Taranto, Italy, June-August 1918, and then with the Army of the Black Sea, October 1919-September 1920. Re-enlisting in June 1919, he was discharged at his own request on 13 August 1929. Greenwood died at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 5 March 1967, aged 78 years. In his prime he was a good boxer and was noted in the regiment as a champion ‘backward long jumper’. He was known in the regiment as ‘Josh the Devil’ because of the large tattoo of the fallen angel across the whole of his chest and shoulders. Sold with some copied service and family history.