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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 34

A Great War 1916 'Western Front' M.M. Group of Four to Lance Corporal F.G. Madeley, Grenadier Guards
a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (19176 L.Cpl. F.G. Madeley. 4/G.Gds.)
b) 1914-15 Star (19176 L.Cpl. F G. Madeley, G.Gds:)
c) British War and Victory Medals (19176 Pte. F.G. Madeley. G. Gds.), light contact marks, otherwise very fine, with the following related items:
- The recipient's miniature awards
- Cap Badge
- Wound Stripe and Scroll, this glazed and framed
- Silver War Badge, reverse numbered '135793', in card box of issue
- Grenadier Guards Association lapel badges
- The recipient's Soldier's Record Book and Soldier's Pay Book
- A large quantity of original documents, letters, newspaper cuttings, and photographs both relating to the recipient and to his daughter, Petty Officer Kathleen Margaret Madeley, Women's Royal Naval Service, including the latter's cap tally (4)

M.M. London Gazette 3.6.1916 19176 L./C. F.G. Madeley, 4th Bn., G. Gds.

19176 Lance Corporal Frank George Madeley, M.M., born Dudleston, Birmingham, October 1893; enlisted in the Grenadier Guards, 18.9.1914, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 15.8.1915; promoted Lance Corporal, 31.12.1915; awarded the Military Medal for gallantry at Ypres on the night of 19-20.4.1916 (Battalion War Diary refers), taking one German prisoner; according to family legend he was awarded the Military Medal 'for rescuing female members of a Belgian family who were suffering at the hands of the Germans following their capture'; wounded in both legs, 23.7.1917; discharged, 23.9.1917; subsequently served with the Staffordshire Police, and ultimately reached the rank of Sergeant; died, 5.7.1968.

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