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Auction: 14003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 62

A Great War 1916 M.M. Group of Four to Private W. Hammond, Leicestershire Regiment, Killed in Action on the Somme, 14.7.1916
a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (18312 Pte. W. Hammond. 7/Leic: R.)
b) 1914-15 Star (18312 Pte. W. Hammond. Leic. R.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (18312 Pte. W. Hammond Leic. R.), good very fine (4)

M.M. London Gazette 21.9.1916 18312 Pte. W. Hammond Leic. R.

18312 Private Walter Hammond, M.M., born Loughborough; served during the Great War with the 7th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, on the Western Front; he was killed in action, 14.7.1916; at the start of July the 7th Battalion, as part of the 110th Brigade, 21st Division, moved on to the Somme, 'To Fricourt (13/7). Mametz Wood (14/7). Attack on Bazentin-le-Petit - advanced at 3.25am with 6th Leicestershire - 'D' Company on left and 'B' and 'C' in centre held up by machine gun fire. Enemy's front and second lines taken by 4am. War Diary notes by this time only two officers left in action. Village later cleared and line established in Bazentin-le-Petit Wood. Relieved and to Fricourt Wood (16/7). Casualties 553' (British Battalions on the Somme, R. Westlake refers); Hammond is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme.

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