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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 113

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel H.M. Fell, Lancashire Home Guard, Late Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment and Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (51 Sjt. H.M. Fell. Notts: & Derby: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. H.M. Fell.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1911; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (51 Sjt: H.M. Fell. 5/N. & D.R.), good very fine or better, with named Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'Lt. Col. H.M. Fell, "Wilne", 6 Regina Avenue, Waterloo, Liverpool 22'; the recipient's riband bar; two postcards; and portrait photograph of the recipient (6)

Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Machin Fell, born May 1885; enlisted in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, 27.8.1903; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 1.3.1915; suffered gun shot wound to the right thigh, 15.8.1915; the recipient's Medical History also states: 'Recipient states he was gassed in April 1915 whilst in the ranks, and has another small wound on his right wrist which he states is a Bayonet Wound received in June 1915'; transferred to the Royal Engineers, 17.4.1916; advanced Warrant Officer Class II, 17.2.1917; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 29.8.1917; Court Martialled for Drunkenness, having been found drunk in the street in Hemel Hempstead, 27.11.1919; subsequently promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 1.2.1941, and served as Commanding Officer of the 89th (Liverpool) Battalion, Lancashire Home Guard.

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