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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 263

(x) The British War Medal awarded to Brigadier-General J. J. MacMahon, Headquarters 55th Division attached 2nd Canadian Division, Royal Artillery

British War Medal 1914-20 (Brig. Gen. J. J. MacMahon.), edge bruise, very fine

John Joseph MacMahon was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned Lieutenant with the Royal Artillery on 23 February 1881. Promoted Captain on 1 October 1889 and appointed Adjutant of Militia Artillery on 15 January 1894.

MacMahon had advanced as far a Colonel by the outbreak of the Great War, entering the action with the 55th (West Lancashire) Division as temporary Brigadier-General. With this unit he further served attached to the 2nd Canadian Division and is additionally noted as the first Brigadier-General commanding the Artillery for the 73rd Division on 8 November 1916. Retiring before the end of the war, on 12 April 1918 MacMahon was granted the honorary rank of Brigadier-General; sold together with copied research including M.I.C., Army lists and a note of the Divisional Headquarters Officers of 73rd Division.

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