Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. & bar group of three awarded to Gunner T. Flannigan, ‘B’ Battery, 158 (Acrington & Burnley) Howitzer Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action in 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R., with second award bar (L-201 Gnr., B.158/Bde. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (L-201 Gnr., R.A.); together with original newspaper cutting which includes a photo of recipient, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 20 October 1916.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 22 February 1918.

Gunner Thomas Flannigan was born in Colne, Lancashire and enlisted at Acrington, Lancashire. He was killed in action France and Flanders 11 December 1917.

The newspaper cutting which accompanies the lot states that the award of the M.M. was made for ‘repairing lines of communication under a German bombardment lasting six hours.’