Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant E. F. Loads, 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish), who died of wounds, France, 26 March 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (5014 Sjt., 4/D. Gds.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (5014 Cpl., 4/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (5014 Sjt., 4-D. Gds.) good very fine (4) £450-550

M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.

Edward Frank Loads was born in North Walsham, Norfolk and lived in Chatham, Kent. As a Corporal in the 4th Dragoon Guards he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 August 1914. On 22 August, a squadron of the unit became the first members of the B.E.F. to engage Germans in action outside of Mons. Loads went on to win the Military Medal for bravery in the field. He died of wounds on 26 March 1918 and was buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension.

With copied research.