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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 295

(x) A 'Third Battle of Gaza 1917' M.M. group of four awarded to Private S. J. Sallows, Bedfordshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (201376 Pte. S. Swallows. 1/5 Bedf:R. - T.F.) note incorrect spelling of surname; 1914-15 Star (4-7008 Pte. S. J. Sallows. Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals 1914-20 (4-7008 Pte. S. Sallows. Bedf. R.), good very fine (4)

M.M. London Gazette 2 April 1918.

Sidney James Sallows was born at North Kensington, London on 2 June 1890, the son of John and Ellen Sallows. Enlisting before the war he is recorded on the 1911 census as an Army Private at St. Peter's Barracks, Jersey. Serving in the 4th (Extra Reserve Battalion), Bedfordshire Regiment while living at Great Munden on the outbreak of the Great War Sallows was mobilised in 1914. Posted to France on 3 December 1914 with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment he was listed as wounded with his name appearing 20 March 1915.

Posted to the 1/5th Battalion in Egypt in February 1916 he was renumbered 201376 in 1917. Here he won the Military Medal, with his M.M. card marked 'Egypt'. Sallows survived the war and was discharged back to the Special Reserve, rejoining the 4th Battalion on 7 April 1919. Upon demobilisation he retired to Puckeridge, Hertfordshire, being listed as a Farm Labourer there in 1939. Sallows died at Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire in October 1953; sold together with copied research comprising, medal rolls, census data and two M.I.C.s.

Note the recipient has two MIC's, both are correctly named and show the same service numbers which correspond to the group.

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£130