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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 711

The 'Battle of Ginchy 1916' M.M. awarded to Private J. Shefford, 2nd Battalion, London Regiment, who was 'mentioned' in 1915 and went on to be so seriously wounded in winning his award that he was invalided from service

Military Medal, G.V.R. (1523 Pte. J. Shefford. 2/Lond:R.), pitting overall, very fine

M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 November 1915.

James Edward Frank Shefford was born at Lambeth, London in 1896 and attested on 11 April 1913. Embodied on 5 August 1914 and posted to Malta on 13 September, the Battalion, including Shefford, entered the war in France on 6 January 1915.

The Battalion was in the line at Gommecourt on the opening of the Somme Offensive and Shefford was diagnosed with shell shock on 4 July 1916, the day after they left the front. Spending some time in the reserve they returned to the front in September for service in the Battle of Ginchy. While there Shefford suffered a gunshot wound in left knee and humorous on 11 September 1916.

He returned to Britain but the wound proved too much to recover from and he was discharged on 21 December 1917.

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£230

Starting price
£110