Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar awarded to Corporal William Sewell, 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (25409 Pte. W. Sewell. 6/Nth’n: R.) good very fine £500-£700

M.M. London Gazette 2 November 1917.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919.

William Sewell was born at Sunnyside, Hertfordshire, and attested for the 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment on 10 December 1915. He went to France in September 1916 and was posted to the 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. He was severely wounded in the left buttock on 5 April 1918, and for much of late June to early September 1918 in hospital suffering with pyrexia. He was discharged to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 6 October 1919. Sold with detailed research including copied attestation papers.