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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 42

A Good Great War 1918 'Battle of Amiens' M.M. Group of Three to Sergeant H.P. Lewry, 8th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (11360 Sjt. H.P. Lewry. 8/E.Surr: R.)
b) British War and Victory Medals (11360 Sjt. H.P. Lewry. E.Surr. R.), suspension a little loose in places, very fine (3)

M.M. London Gazette 24.1.1919 11360 Sjt. Lewry, H.P., 8th Bn East Surrey Regiment (Tooting)

11360 Sergeant Herbert P. Lewry, M.M., born Brighton, Sussex, 1890; served during the Great War with the 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment on the Western Front; the battalion had written itself into legend for its gallant 'football charge' towards the German trenches at Montauban on the 1st Day of the Battle of Somme; a company commander, Captain W.P. Nevill, had provided four footballs, one for each of his platoons and they had proceeded to kick the balls across no man's land in an effort to take the enemy trenches; Lewry distinguished himself with the battalion during the Battle of Amiens on the Bray-Corbie Road, close to Morlancourt, between the 6th-10th August 1918; during this action six M.C.'s and twelve M.M.'s were awarded to the 8th Battalion, and it suffered 2 officers killed, 1 died of wounds, 6 wounded, 89 men killed or missing and 118 wounded.

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