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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 30

A Great War 1916 ´French Theatre´ M.M. to Company Sergeant Major D.J. Strickland, Gloucestershire Regiment, Killed in Action 17.7.1916
Military Medal, G.V.R. (186 A.C.S.Mjr. D.J. Strickland. 1/4 Glouc: R.-T.F.), good very fine

M.M. London Gazette 11.11.1916 186 Actg. Coy. S./M. D.J. Strickland, Glouc. R.

186 Company Sergeant Major Denis Joseph Strickland, M.M., born Weston-super-Mare; served during the Great War with the 1/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Force; he was killed in action, 17.7.1916; on the latter date the 1/4th Battalion were heavily engaged in action west and north-west of the village of Ovillers, Somme; Strickland is buried in Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, Somme, France.

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