The John Chidzey Collection

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant J. McCormick, Royal Highlanders

Military Medal, G.V.R. (3764 A. Cpl. J. McCormick, 1/4 R. Hdrs. - T.F.); 1914-15 Star (3764 Pte. J. McCormick, R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (3764 Pte. J. McCormick, R. Highrs.), official correction to number on the first, contact marks, generally very fine (4) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 19 February 1917.

Joseph McCormick first entered the French theatre of war in July 1915, where as a member of the 1/4th Battalion he would have quickly seen action at the Battle of Loos. The announcement for his subsequent award of his M.M. appeared in the unit’s war diary on 22 December 1916, shortly after the Battalion’s withdrawal from the Somme, where casualties had amounted to over 100 killed and another 600 wounded in the period September-November. More specifically, however, McCormick’s M.M. is likely to have stemmed from the action leading to the capture of St. Pierre Divion on the River Ancre on 13-14 November. He was discharged in March 1918 (his MIC entry refers).