Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain H. M. North, Monmouthshire Regiment, who was wounded at Cambrai in November 1917

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. H. M. North, Mon. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. M. North), good very fine (3) £240-280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Henry Milward North was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment in September 1914 and first went to France in January 1915. He was seriously wounded and taken prisoner near Gouzeaucourt in the Cambrai operations of November 1917 but was rescued in a subsequent British advance: his wounds had been dressed by the Germans who treated him with ‘every consideration’.

North, who had been advanced to Lieutenant in in September 1916, relinquished his commission on account of ‘ill-health caused by wounds’ (London Gazette 9 September 1920, refers); sold with copied research.