Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War tunnelling operations M.M. group of five awarded to Corporal J. W. Parsons, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (102236 Cpl. J. W. Parsons, R.E.); 1914-15 Star (102236 Spr. J. W. Parsons, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (102236 Cpl. J. W. Parsons, R.E.); Defence Medal 1939-45, the third with re-impressed naming, very fine and better (5) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

John William Parsons, a native of Northumberland, first entered the French theatre of war as a Sapper in June 1915, and was decorated for his services in 179th Tunnelling Company, R.E. Whether he was attached to the same unit in July 1916 remains unknown, but if so he would have worked on the ‘Y’ Sap mine near La Boiselle, which was detonated on the first day of the battle of the Somme, and is today the site of the Lochnagar Mine Crater Memorial.