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

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private J. Hutchinson, Leicestershire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (201163 Pte. J. Hutchinson, 4/Leic. R.), nearly extremely fine £250-300

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 15 May 1919.

Sold with an original typed citation, signed by Major G. R. A. Beckett, C.O. of the 1/4th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, and dated 4 December 1918, which states:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 29 September 1918. During the attack [on the St. Quentin Canal] this man went forward through the enemy barrage to obtain touch with a forward company. He reached an enemy post which had not been “mopped up” and attacked it, capturing five of the enemy.’