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Sold on 17 September 2009

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A Collection of Medals to the 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment

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№ 533

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18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£260

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private A Nicholls, 4th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (47267 Pte., 4/York & Lanc. R.) slight contact marks, very fine £200-240

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

The recipient came from Liverpool.

The 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, by Captain D. P. Grant, records (p.139) that Nicholls’ M.M. was awarded for carrying messages under fire.