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

A Great War M.M. and Bar group of six awarded to Colour-Sergeant H. Dodd, Leicestershire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (7563 A. Sjt. H. Dodd, 1/Leic. R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (7563 L. Cpl., 1/Leic. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (7563 C. Sjt., Leic. R.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4848306 C. Sjt., Leic. R.), mounted as worn, contact marks but generally very fine (6) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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M.M. London Gazette 27 October 1916.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Mention in despatches London Gazette 4 January 1917.

Dodd’s first M.M. was awarded in respect of the 1st Battalion’s gallant attack on the Quadrilateral feature on the Somme on 15 September 1916.

The recipient may have won his MM for the Quadrilateral feature