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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 186

The British War Medal awarded to Petty Officer Motor Mechanic M. H. Bythway, Royal Naval Air Service, who served with the Armoured Car Section at Gallipoli

British War Medal 1914-20 (F.900 M. H. Bythway. P.O.M.M. R.N.A.S.), very fine

Montague Hayes Bythway was born at Cheadle, Cheshire on 20 January 1881, the son of Thomas and Caroline Bythway of 'The Elms', Stockport Etchells, Cheshire. Educated at Eastbourne College (Wargrave House) from late 1894-December 1899 when he matriculated to King's College, Cambridge. Earning a degree in Mathematics Bythway went on to find work as an Electrical Engineer. Enlisting on 13 November 1914 he joined the Royal Naval Air Service with the rank of Petty Officer Motor Mechanic, presumably as a result of his civilian experience. Bythway served in Gallipoli with the Royal Navy Armoured Car Division. Unfortunately he contracted Diphtheria and was evacuated to Malta, dying of the illness at St. George's Hospital, Malta on 9 December 1915 only a few short weeks before the evacuation of Gallipoli. He is buried at Pieta Military Cemetery; sold together with copied census data, service records and medal rolls as well as handwritten research.

Further entitled to the 1914-15 Star and British War Medal 1914-1920.

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