Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

A Great War M.M. to Lance-Corporal P. S. Ford, 7th Battalion The Queen’s Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (G-21738 L. Cpl., 7/The Queen’s) very fine £240-280

M.M. London Gazette 13 September 1918.

Percy Sidney Ford was born in 1897 and living in Brighton, enlisted into the Sussex Yeomanry on 24 September 1914. As a Lance-Corporal with the 7th Battalion The Queen’s Regiment he was qualified as a 1st Class Shot and a 1st Class Lewis-Gunner and during the course of the war was awarded the Military Medal. He was disembodied on 3 April 1919.

Sold with original Certificate of Employment during the War, Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity and Certificate of Disembodiment. Also with original letter, dated 24 February 1917, addressed to Ford from the father of an officer he assisted when wounded:

‘My son Capt. F. O. H.[eath] has asked me to send you enclosed 30£ as a little appreciation of the care you took of him when wounded, and I thank you most sincerely on behalf of myself & Mrs Heath. I am glad to say the Captain is going on very well indeed, luckily the bullet did’nt touch anything vital. When he awoke at the R.X. Hospital near here he was very weak, paralysed in both arms & legs & suffering a great deal of pain at intervals. His legs are now pretty well normal, the right arm nearly so & left arm improving rapidly ... With ...(?) thanks to you & others who showed him every possible attention’. (signed) ‘A. R. Heath’ of Kitlands, Holmwood, Surrey.