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A Great War 1916 ‘Mouquet Farm, Somme’ stretcher-bearer’s M.M. awarded to Private A. H. Davis, 13th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force

Military Medal, G.V.R. (2350 Pte A. H. Davis. 13/Aust: Inf:) light contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £500-£700

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

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M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916.
The original recommendation states: ‘A Regimental Stretcher-Bearer. During the attack near Mouquet Farm on night 29/30th August, he took charge of a party of 20 wounded men and conducted from the Regimental Aid Post to the 13th Field Ambulance. On return he went to assist in bringing wounded from another part of the line to Aid Post, traversing a most dangerous trench in the process. Although nearly dead beat he was one of the first to volunteer to take another wounded man back to the Ambulance Station. He is always the first to volunteer for hard dangerous work.’

Albert Henry Davis was born in Wanganin, New Zealand. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Liverpool, New South Wales, 28 May 1915. Davis served with the 13th Australian Infantry Battalion in the French theatre of war, and distinguished himself during the attack on Mouquet Farm, Somme, 29/30 August 1916.