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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 396

Four: Private E. J. Hills, Machine Gun Corps, late South Wales Borderers and Essex Regiment

1914-15 Star (3-2010 Pte. E. J. Hills, Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-2010 Pte. E. J. Hills, Essex R.); General Service Medal, 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (62322 Pte. E. J. Hills, M.G.C.), very fine (4)


Ernest J. Hills served in France with the Essex Regiment from 26 January 1915. He subsequently transferred to the South Wales Borderers and thence to the 17th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Northern Division), which were formed on 24 February 1918; demobilisation began in January 1919, but Ernest stayed with the M.G.C. for service in Iraq.

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