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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 422

Cheshire Regiment

A Great War Third Battle of Gaza M.M. group of four awarded to Private T. S. Joyce, 1/4th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (201221 Pte. T. S. Joyce, 1/4 Ches. R.-T.F.); 1914-15 Star (3583 Pte. T. S. Joyce, Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3583 Pte. T. S. Joyce, Ches. R.), very fine or better (4)

M.M. London Gazette 10 April 1918.

Thomas S. Joyce first saw action in Gallipoli, in which theatre of operations - as a Private in the 1/4th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment - he arrived as a reinforcement on 24 October 1915. Having witnessed action at Chocolate Hill - and endured trenches 'two feet deep in mud and slush' - he would have been among those evacuated from the peninsula in December; the unit's O.R.B. refers.

Subsequently, as part of 159th Infantry Brigade, a component of 53rd Welsh Division, Joyce saw action in Egypt and Palestine. At the First Battle of Gaza on 26 March 1917, the Cheshire's attacked Clay Hill to the south-east of the town, losing 14 men killed and a further nine officers and 88 men wounded.

Joyce won his M.M. for gallant deeds in the Third Battle of Gaza in November 1917, when the Battalion was heavily involved in the attack on Ain Kohle, a seemingly minor objective but which resulted in protracted and bitter fighting lasting several days. The Battalion was ordered to France in May 1918, following which, in May 1919, Joyce was demobilised.


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