Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Private E. Mortimer, Royal Air Force, late West Yorkshire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps: he was twice wounded in the trenches

Military Medal, G.V.R. (12774 Pte. E. Mortimer, 11/W. York. R); Queen’s Mediterranean 1899-1902 (4921 Pte., W. York. Regt.), no initial given; 1914-15 Star (12774 Pte., W. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (12774 Pte., W. York. R.), the second with re-pinned (but slack) suspension claw, contact wear and edge bruising, about very fine and better (5) £400-500

M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916.

Ebenezer Mortimer, who was born in the Parish of Morley, near Leeds, Yorkshire in October 1880, is verified as having been awarded the Queen’s Mediterranean Medal for services with the West Yorkshire Regiment - the relevant roll also omits his initial.

Re-enlisting in his old regiment on the outbreak of hostilities, Mortimer arrived in France in late August 1915 and fought with the 11th Battalion on the Somme in the following year, where he was wounded in the left arm; he was again wounded on 29 August 1917, this time severely in the head. In February 1918, however, he was back on active service, having transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an Air Mechanic 3rd Class, and he ended the War as a Private 2nd Class in the R.A.F. Mortimer was also a recipient of the Silver War Badge.