GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY
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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Bar awarded to Private
Thomas Kenny, 2/8th Battalion Liverpool Regiment
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (308787 Pte., 2/8 L’pool.
R.-T.F.) slight edge bruising, nearly very fine £350-400
M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.
Bar to M.M. London Gazette 18 September 1918.
The 2/8th (Irish) Battalion was formed in Liverpool in October 1914 and landed
in France in February 1917 as part of 171 Brigade, 57th (West Lancashire)
Division.
In 1917 the Division saw its first major action at the Second Battle of
Passchendaele, 26 October-7 November. It is possibly for his bravery in that
battle that Private Thomas Kenny was awarded the Military Medal.
On the night of the 18/19 August 1918, the 2/8th (Irish) Liverpool Regiment, as
part of 171 Brigade, sent out three fighting patrols with the object of probing the
enemy front line in the Fampouk South Sector. Each patrol encountered the
enemy and engaged in hand to hand fighting with bomb and bayonet. It is
possible that Private Kenny was awarded the Bar to his M.M for his bravery on
the night 18/19 August as a member of one of these patrols.
With copied m.i.c. and 171 Brigade war diary extract.
834
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Bar awarded to Serjeant Joseph Mitchell, 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (546 Sjt., 2/Gord. Hdrs.) good very fine £400-450
M.M. London Gazette 19 February 1917.
Bar to M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.
Joseph Mitchell came from Glasgow in Scotland and, from his number, it would appear that he joined the army in c.1910 for a twelve-
year term, seven of which were to be spent with the Colours. After initial training at Castlehill Barracks, Aberdeen, he would have been
posted to the 1st Battalion at Colchester for further training and would then have gone to join the 2nd Battalion in Cawnpore, India.
In January 1913 he moved with the 2nd Battalion to the Palace Barracks, Cairo and he is recorded as being in ‘B’ Company. On 13
September 1914 he sailed back on the S.S. Assaye landing at Southampton on 1 October. On 4 October he boarded the S.S. Lake
Michigan and arrived in Zeebrugge on 7 October thus qualifying for the 1914 Star.
During the War the 2nd Battalion fought at Ypres in 1914; Neuve Chapelle and Loos in 1915; the Somme in 1916 - they attacked
Mametz on 1 July; at Arras and Third Ypres in 1917. On 23 November 1917 they went to Italy as part of the 7th Division and took part
in the battles of Piave and Vittorio Veneto.
Serjeant Joseph Mitchell was one of only ten soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders who earned a bar to their M.M in the
Great War. Both his awards were for bravery in the France/Flanders theatre of war. With copied m.i.c.
835
A Great War Western Front M.M. group of five awarded to Chief Petty Officer J. F. Ingram, R.N.V.R., Anson Battalion,
Royal Naval Division
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (CZ-1823 P.O. J. F. Ingram, Anson Bn: R.N.V.R.); 1914-15 STAR (C.Z-1823 J. F. Ingram, A.B., R.N.
V.R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (C.Z.1823 J. F. Ingram, C.P.O. R.N.V.R.); SPECIAL CONSTABULARY MEDAL, G.V.R., 2nd
issue (John Ingram), together with related small gilt medal, central lion rampant within oval garter, the reverse inscribed
‘Cullen H.G.P.S. James B. Ingram 1945’, good very fine (6) £600-700
M.M. London Gazette 16 July 1918.
John Forsyth Ingram was born on 21 October 1888, son of James Ingram, of Cullen, Banffshire. He enlisted into the Clyde Division of
the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 23 October 1914. Posted initially to the Benbow Battalion, he was transferred to the Anson
Battalion in June 1915 and served with them in France. He was wounded on 11 September 1916 but rejoined his unit on 22
September. He was again wounded on 9 April 1918, this time severely in the left foot, right knee and thigh by gunshot. He was
confirmed in the rank of Chief Petty Officer on 31 December 1918, and demobilized at Kinross on 19 January 1919. Sold with copy
record of service.
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