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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 32

A Great War 1916 ´French Theatre´ M.M. Group of Six to Company Sergeant Major J.W. Glennan, York and Lancaster Regiment a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (3-3706 Sjt: J.W. Glennan. 6/Y.&L.R.) b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing´s Nek (5162 Pte. J. Glennon [sic], 1: Yk: & Lanc: Regt.), initial officially corrected c) King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (5162 Pte. J.W. Glennon. York: & Lanc: Regt.) d) 1914-15 Star (3706 Sjt. J.W. Glennan, York & Lanc. R.) e) British War and Victory Medals (3706 W.O.Cl.2 J.W. Glennan. Y. & L.R.), edge bruising to Q.S.A. and K.S.A., otherwise good very fine (6) Estimate £ 400-450 M.M. London Gazette 9.12.1916 3/3706 Sjt. J.W. Glennan, 6th Bn. Yorks & Lancs. R. 3706 Company Sergeant Major John Willie Glennan, M.M., born Dewsbury, Yorkshire; enlisted York and Lancaster Regiment, 1898; served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa; discharged 2.6.1910; re-engaged for service during the Great War and served with the 6th (Service) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment in the Egyptian Theatre of War, from 4.11.1915; Glennan joined up with the Battalion just after it had been evacuated from Gallipoli, having taken part in the Suvla Bay landings; the 6th Battalion moved to France in July 1916; the battalion took part in the first battle of the Somme, as part of the 32nd Brigade, 11th (Northern) Division, arriving in the front line of the Thiepval sector, 10.9.1916; Company Sergeant Major 10.2.1917; received a gun shot wound and was invalided as a consequence.

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