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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 412

A Great War 1916 Somme M.M. to Private W.J. Smith, Machine Gun Corps, Late Liverpool Regiment, For the Delville Wood and Guillemont Operations Military Medal, G.V.R. (17062 Pte. W.J. Smith. 6/Co: M.G.C.), extremely fine Estimate £ 240-280 M.M. London Gazette 21.10.1916 17062 Pte. W.J. Smith, M. Gun Corps. 17062 Private William James Smith, M.M., enlisted as 10190 Private, 1st Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, August 1912; served in France from 31.5.1915; transferred 6th Company, Machine Gun Corps on its formation as part of 2nd Division, 4.1.1916, and won his Military Medal for operations in connection with the capture of Delvill Wood, and the attack on Waterlot Far, Guillemont, August 1916; discharged 23.2.1919.

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