Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private J. W. Carroll, West Riding Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (12492 Pte J. W. Carroll. 2/W. Rid: R.); 1914-15 Star (12492, Pte. J. Carrol [sic], W. Rid. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-12492 Pte. J. W. Carroll. W. Rid. R.) edge bruise to MM and this slightly polished, nearly very fine and better (4) £340-380

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

James Wilson Carroll was born in Bradford, Yorkshire on 30 January 1895. He attested for the 3rd Battalion, West Riding Regiment on 15 September 1911 but was discharged by purchase on 18 May 1914. He re-attested at Bradford on 28 January 1915 for the West Riding Regiment and during the Great War served in the French theatre of war from 29 April 1915 with the 2nd Battalion. He was sent home dangerously ill on 14 March 1915 and after recovering was posted to the 8th Battalion and served at Mudros, Gallipoli and Egypt before returning to the Western Front in July 1916. He was posted to the 10th Battalion on 1 July 1918 and then the 2nd Battalion on 1 September 1918. He was wounded on 24 October 1918 and returned home on 29 October 1918. He transferred to the Army Reserve in March 1919 and was finally discharged on 31 March 1920. He died in 1979.

Sold together with a 4th Division Gallantry Certificate, ‘for gallant conduct of 12492 Pte. (L/Corpl.) J. Carrol, 2nd Duke of Wells: (W. Riding) Regt’.