Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1918 M.M. awarded to Private J. Thorpe, 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment

Military Medal G.V.R. (15141 Pte. J. Thorpe. 1/Linc: R.) edge nicks, good very fine £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

John Thorpe, a native of Leasingham, Lincolnshire, attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 March 1915. He was awarded the Military Medal, most likely for gallantry at the Battle of Cambrai or the Battle of the Selle, in October 1918.