Auction Catalogue

17 & 18 September 2009

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 528

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18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£580

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar awarded to Lance-Corporal C. T. York, 1/4 (Hallamshire) York and Lancaster Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (13315 L. Cpl., 1/4 York & Lanc. R.) slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £400-500

M.M. London Gazette 28 August 1918.

M.M. Bar
London Gazette 17 June 1919.

C. T. York came from Rotherham, Yorkshire.

The 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, by Captain D. P. Grant, records (p.118) that York’s M.M. was one of several awarded to the battalion for the fighting in April 1918. For the award of his Bar, it records:

For Avesnes-le-Sec, October 1918. ‘Corporal York was sent with his platoon, after his platoon officer and sergeant had become casualties, to reinforce a front line company. “He handled his men skilfully, enabling the company to advance further. He showed utter disregard for his own personal safety under very heavy M.G. fire that he inspired his men to follow him for a long distance.”’