Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. to Serjeant T. A. Bruton, Worcestershire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (691 Sjt., 1/7 Worc. R.-T.F.) nearly extremely fine £300-350

Thomas A. Bruton was the son of Margaret Bruton of Dudley, Worcestershire and husband of Esther Bruton of Heybridge, Essex. Serving as a Serjeant with the 1/7th Worcestershire Regiment he was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 11 November 1916). Commissioned a Second Lieutenant with the 6th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on 26 April 1917, he was killed in action, whilst attached to the 4th Battalion, on 1 September 1918, whilst taking part in the advance in the Lys Valley. He was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension in Nord, France.