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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 549

A 1917 D.C.M. awarded to Company Sergeant-Major T. J. Sloley, Machine Gun Corps, who was later awarded the M.C.

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (18321 C.S.Mjr: T. J. Sloley, 27/Coy. M.G.C.), polished, nearly very fine

[M.C.] London Gazette 1 January 1919.

D.C.M. London Gazette 9 July 1917:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed great coolness in organising carrying parties under shell fire. He has at all times set a splendid example.’

Thomas John Sloley was born in January 1889 at Brecon, Powys. Listed as a stoker in 1911, he served in France with the Machine Gun Corps and was latterly awarded the Military Cross with the 9th Battalion as a late award for the Somme October 1916 operations. Sloley died at Bridgend in December 1943; sold with copied MIC and research.


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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£480