Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Driver J. McEvoy, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (127895 Dvr., R.F.A.) some edge bruising, good very fine £160-200

M.M. London Gazette 29 August 1918.

Driver James McEvoy, who was from Sunderland, joined the Royal Field Artillery and was attached to X/37 Medium Trench Mortar Battery. This was a 37th Divisional Artillery unit equipped with six 6 inch Newton Mortars. The ‘Remarks’ section of his m.i.c. bears the single word, ‘Deserted’. With copied research.