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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 413

A Great War 1916 Somme ´Battle of Transloy Ridges´ M.M. to Company Sergeant Major H. Phillips, Machine Gun Corps, Late Worcestershire Regiment, Commanded a Group of Picked Men in Rearguard at the Gallipoli Evacuation Military Medal, G.V.R. (21490 A.C.S. Mjr: H. Phillips. 88/Coy. M.G.C.), minor edge bruising, good very fine Estimate £ 250-300 M.M. London Gazette 14.12.1916 21490 Actg. Coy. S./M. H. Phillips, M.G. Corps. 21490 Company Sergeant Major Henry Phillips, M.M., enlisted as 5094 Private, 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment; advanced to Sergeant and served abroad with the Regiment in Gallipoli from 4.4.1915; in the rear-guard at the evacuation as part of a command of ´picked men of "X" and "Y" Companies with a machine-gun under Sergeant Phillips´ (Regimental History refers); transferred to 88th Company, Machine Gun Corps on its formation as part of 29th Division, 21.2.1916, and won his Military Medal for Battle of Transloy Ridges, Somme, October 1916.

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