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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 184

The Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque to Company Sergeant Major W. H. Lichfield, South Staffordshire Regiment who died of wounds on 10 August 1916 who was a recipient of a Military Medal and was also mentioned in dispatches for his Great War service

Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (William Henry Lichfield), in card folder, extremely fine

M.M. London Gazette 14 September 1916.

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916.

William Henry Lichfield was the son of John and Elizabeth Lichfield. He was born at Birmingham and enlisted at Lichfield, Staffordshire and first served overseas on 12 August 1914 with the 2nd Battalion. He died of wounds on 10 August 1916 and is buried in the La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie. He was entitled to a 1914 Star trio but according to his Medal Index Card, the British War and Victory Medal Pair were returned.

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