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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 233

A Great War M.M. and Bar group of four awarded to Corporal H. P. Cornelius, 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (17718 Pte. H. P. Cornelius. 6/Som: L. I.); 1914-15 Star (17718 Pte. H. P. Cornelius. Som: L. I.); British War and Victory Medals (17718 Cpl. H. P. Cornelius. Som. L. I.), good very fine (4)

M.M. London Gazette 5 November 1917.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

Herbert Percy Cornelius, a native of Aberdare, served with the 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry in France from 8 September 1915.

The Battalion was raised at Taunton in August 1914 and was attached to 43rd Brigade, 14th (Light) Division. It was present at Hooge in 1915, when the Division became the first to be attacked by flamethrowers. In 1916 it fought at Delville Wood and Flers-Courcelette on the Somme. In 1917 it advanced to the Hindenburg Line, before being present during the Arras Offensive and at the third battle of Ypres. In 1918 it took heavy casualties at St. Quentin and the Avre, being withdrawn to on 14 April 1918 and forming a composite unit with the 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. In June the Battalion was again reconstituted and absorbed into the 13th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, for the final advance in Flanders.

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