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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 31

A Good Great War ´French Theatre´ M.M. to Sergeant D.O. James, Welsh Regiment
Military Medal, G.V.R. (33247 Sjt: D.O. James. 10/Welsh R.), good very fine

M.M. London Gazette 23.2.1918 33247 Sjt. D. O. James, Welsh R. (Caerau, Maesteg).

33247 Sergeant David Owen James, served with the 10th Battalion Welsh Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 3.12.1915; awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry in the Boutillerie sub-sector: ´Sergeant D.O. James (D Company) and Private Edgar Lewis (A Company) awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry on the morning of 9th November 1917. One of our patrols consisting of 1 Officer and 8 men were fired upon by enemy Machine Gun fire- the Officer was killed and 2 men were wounded. Two men of this patrol remained with the officer all night and as they did not return by 9:00am Sergeant James and the other rank went across No Man´s Land in Daylight and brought the 2 men back to our lines, who had lost their way.´ (Battalion War Diary refers).

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