Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar awarded to Sergeant C. Boardman, Manchester Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (988 Sjt. C. Boardman. 2/Manch: R.) good very fine £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 24 January 1919.

Charles Boardman enlisted on 7 May 1908 and served in 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment and landed in France on 18 December 1914. He was Mentioned in Despatches in 1915 (London Gazette 22 June 1915) ‘for bringing in the wounded Private G. Mansfield, on 11 April 1915, at Ypres, (together with Sergeant F. Snow)’, and was subsequently awarded the Military Medal and a Second Award Bar. He was discharged on 9 January 1919 and was entitled to Silver War Badge No. B85432.

Sold with copied research and a small soft cover booklet, The Recollections of Three Manchesters in the Great War, being the transcribed recollections of three Great War Veterans of the Manchester Regiment, in which Charles Boardman is mentioned.