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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 399

The Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Company Sergeant Major H. E. Winters, 8th Battalion (Leeds Rifles), West Yorkshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (7947 C. S. Mjr; H. E. Winters. 8/W. York:R.); India General Service 1908-1935, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (7947 Lce Corporal H. Winters 1st W. Y. Regt.); British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-1919 (7947 W. O. Cl 2. H. Winter. W. York. R.); Army L.S. & G.C. (4523855 W. O. Cl. II. H. E. Winters. W. York. R.), naming of third erased, contact wear overall, very fine (5)

M.M. London Gazette 20 October 1919.

Herbert Edward Winters was born at Darlington, Durham in 1884, the son of Mary Dallison of 18 Churchfield Terrace, North Leeds. He served as a Lance Corporal on the North-West Frontier before joining the war in France as a Company Sergeant Major. After the war Winters went on to become the Caterer for the Sergeants' Mess in June 1932 and was still alive in March 1947 being noted as attending a regimental gathering at the time; sold together with copied research including census data, war diaries, M.I.C. and a group photograph including the recipient along with extracts from Ca Ira and the London Gazette

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£270