Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal W. Sheldrick, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, who died of wounds on the Western Front 27 September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (30038 Cpl W. Sheldrick. 1/North’d. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (30038 Cpl. W. Sheldrick. North’d Fus.); Memorial Plaque (William Sheldrick) generally good very fine (4) £360-£440

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Kenneth Petrie Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919.

William Richard Sheldrick was born in North Shields, Northumberland in April 1895. He was the son of a merchant seaman, and served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers in the French theatre of war. He died on wounds on the Western Front on 27 September 1918, and is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Sold with various photographic images of recipient.