Special Collections

Sold on 23 September 2005

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The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris

Trevor Henry Harris

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№ 363

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£360

A Great War Somme 1916 operations M.M. group of three awarded to Private H. A. Warden, Leicestershire Regiment

Military Medal
, G.V.R. (12171 Pte. H. A. Warden, 8/Leic. R.); British War and Victory Medals (12171 Pte., Leic. R.), surname spelt ‘Worden’ on these two, the first with heavy contact marks and edge bruising, fine, the others rather better (3) £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 27 October 1916.

Almost certainly an award for the 8th Battalion’s gallant attack on Bazentin-le-Petit on the night of 13-14 July 1916 - not a single officer was left standing and casualties amounted to 426 men.