Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.C.M., M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal Thomas Brindley, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, together with a gold cased presentation watch

DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL, G.V.R. (4417 Cpl., 2/R. War. R.); MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (4417 L.Cpl., 2/R. War. R.); 1914-15 STAR (R. War. R.), together with an open faced gold-cased pocket watch, hallmarked 9 carat, Birmingham 1917, the outer case with presentation inscription 'Presented by the owners, officials and workmen of the Griff Colliery Company Ltd. to Thomas Brindley on the occasion of being awarded the Military Medal 1918', the watch with some faults and not in working order, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Mike Minton.

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M.M., London Gazette, 9 December 1916.

D.C.M., London Gazette, 18 July, 1917. 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He made five journeys over exposed ground in order to gain information of the situation. This was carried out under heavy machine gun and rifle fire, and finally he brought back one wounded officer.'

Corporal Brindley was killed in action at Polygone Wood on 9 October 1917, and is comemorated by name on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele.