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Auction: 17001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 263

A good Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private B. Blackshaw, East Kent Regiment, who had a narrow escape after an enemy mine was detonated, leaving him with a dented tin helmet and broken wrist-watch

Military Medal, G.V.R. (7564 Pte. B. Blackshaw, 6/E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (C-7564 Pte. B. Blackshaw, E. Kent R.), contact marks, very fine (3)

M.M. London Gazette 23 August 1916.

Ben Blackshaw served in the 6th Battalion, East Kent Regiment in France, prior to transferring to the Tank Corps.

On 18 March 1916, the Battalion faced a determined enemy attack at Hohenzollern Redoubt, the latter detonating five mines just short of the British lines. It was on this occasion, as reported in The Sheffield Daily Independent under the title 'Chapeltown Heroes', that Blackshaw had a narrow escape, his tin helmet being dented and his wrist-watch broken. The Battalion again came under heavy fire on the Somme in early July 1916, whilst going forward in support of the West Kent Regiment; see Edmonds, Brigadier General Sir James E., History of the Great War; Military Operations France and Belgium, 1916 (Macmillan, London, 1932), for further details.

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