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8 December 2021

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8 December 2021

Hammer Price:
£300

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Corporal J. W. Ridley, Northumberland Fusiliers, later Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (1529 L. Cpl. J. W. Ridley. 1/4 Nth’d: Fus:) nearly very fine £240-£280

M.M. London Gazette 6 January 1917.

John W. Ridley attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers and served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, before subsequently transferring to the Royal Engineers.

Sold with copied research which states that he is listed as wounded in
St George’s Gazette, April 1915.