Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1918 ‘Epehy’ M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Corporal H. E. Reed, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was seriously wounded at the Battle of Epehy in September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (L-10391 Pte. H. E. Reed. 2/R. Suss: R).; 1914-15 Star (L-10391 Pte. H. E. Reed. R. Suss: R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-10391 A. Cpl. H. E. Reed. R. Suss. R.) contact marks, very fine (4) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919

Harry Edward Reed was born in 1894. He attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment on 8 August 1914 and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 November 1914. His battalion fought with the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division in the attack at Epehy on 18 September 1918. Reed was admitted to the 2nd General Hospital, Le Havre on 20 September 1918, with a compound fracture of his femur caused by a gun shot wound to the thigh; he was transferred to the Hospital Ship Essequibo two days later. Reed’s M.M. schedule number indicates an award for the period August - October 1918 and was almost certainly for the attack at Epehy where he was seriously wounded. He was discharged due to wounds on 11 April 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge.