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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 126

A Great War 1918 'Western Front' M.M. Group of Seven to Captain W. Kirkham, Merionethshire Home Guard and Lancashire Home Guard, Late Liverpool Regiment
a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (305445 Sjt: W. Kirkman [sic]. 1/5 L'pool R.)
b) 1914 Star, this a copy (2152. Sgt. Kirkham. 1st Bn. The Kings. R.), privately engraved in large serif capitals
c) British War and Victory Medals (2152 Sjt. W. Kirkham. L'pool R.)
d) Defence Medal
e) Coronation 1953
f) Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, E.II.R. (William Kirkham), nearly very fine or better, with a portrait photograph of the recipient (7)

M.M. London Gazette 13.11.1918 305445 Sjt. W. Kirkman, Liverpool Regiment (Ellesmere, Salop).

Captain William Kirkham, M.M., enlisted in the Liverpool Regiment, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 3.5.1915; advanced Sergeant and awarded the Military Medal; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1.2.1941, and served with the 15th (Bolton) Battalion, Lancashire Home Guard; subsequently promoted Captain and served with the 4th (Corwen) Battalion, Merionethshire Home Guard.

According to the recipient's family, the recipient put his medals in for remounting, where the 1914-15 Star was lost and a replacement 1914 Star put into the group.

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£380