Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private W. Pashley, 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, late King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (294017 Pte., 6/Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (201999 Pte., K.O.Y.L.I.) contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (3) £260-300

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Walter Pashley came from Bradford. Initially enlisting into the Army as Private 201999 in the K.O.Y.L.I., he later transferred to the 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry as Private 294017, with whom he earned the M.M. Later still he returned to the K.O.Y.L.I. as Private 80172. With copied m.i.c., gazette extract and other research.