Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. pair awarded to Private H. O. Fleming, 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action, Western Front, 8 August 1916

Military Medal, G.V.R. (8564 Pte., 1/Som. L.I.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (8564 Pte., 1/Som. L.I.) nearly extremely fine (2) £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 1 September 1916.

Harold Osborne Fleming was born in Mortlake, Surrey and enlisted at London. Serving with the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 August 1914. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 8 August 1916. He was buried in the Essex Farm Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen. With copied m.i.c. and casualty details.