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6 & 7 December 2017

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Lot

№ 72

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6 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£1,100

A Great War M.M. and Bar group of four awarded to Private J. O. Sellers, Worcestershire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (10639 Pte J. O. Sellers. 3/Worc: R.); 1914 Star (10639 Pte J. O. Sellers. 3/Worc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (10639 Pte J. O. Sellers. Worc. R.) polished, very fine (4) £600-800

M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1916.

M.M. Second Award Bar
London Gazette 27 June 1918.

John Oliver Sellers was born at Oldbury, Worcestershire, on 20 July 1889, and attested for the Worcestershire Regiment at Dudley on 20 August 1907. He served during the Great War with the 3rd Battalion on the Western Front from 12 August 1914, was awarded the Military Medal and a Second Award Bar, and was wounded on the left side of his back by machine gun bullet on 27 May 1918. He was disembodied on 26 June 1919.