Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War battle of Cambrai M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant F. Pickersgill, York and Lancaster Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (14-473 Pte. F. Pickersgill, 2/5 Y. & L.R. - T.F.); British War and Victory Medals (14-475 Sjt. F. Pickersgill, York & Lanc. R.), generally very fine (3) £250-300

M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918.

Frank Pickersgill, a native of Barnsley, was awarded the M.M. in respect of his gallantry with 2/5th Battalion, the York & Lancaster Regiment, at Cambrai between 20-27 November 1917.

Accompany extracts from the unit’s war diary refer to several attacks being made at the end of that month, one of them, near Havrincourt on the 20th, witnessing ‘great valour’ on the part of the Battalion, the objective being taken with 300 P.O.Ws, but another, on Bourlon on the 27th, proving unsuccessful and costly, our supporting tanks being barred by barriers constructed by the enemy.