GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY 1694
A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Serjeant W. N. M. Johnston, 2nd Battalion Canadian Infantry, three times wounded in action
MILITARYMEDAL, G.V.R. (81456 Pte., 2/Ca. Inf. Bn.); 1914-15 STAR (81456 Pte., 2/Can. Inf) service number renamed; BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (81456 A. Sjt., 2-Can. Inf.) mounted as worn, good very fine (4)
£500-600 M.M. London Gazette 23 August 1916.
Recommendation reads: ‘During the action in the Ypres Salient on the 13th-14th June 1916, Pte. Johnston carried several important despatches under heavy shell fire. On one occasion he was sent with Pte. Bond to deliver an important despatch. Whilst going over a heavily shelled area Pte. Bond was fatally hit by a shell. Pte. Johnston without delay took off the message from the dying man and delivered it safely.’
Walter Nelson Moore Johnston was born in Springfield, Manitoba on 10 October 1889. A Clerk by occupation and a member of the 34th Fort Garry Horse, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 24 December 1914. He was in France with the 2nd Battalion in May 1915. Johnston was slightly wounded in the right foot, 2 May 1916 and left arm, 6 May 1916. As a despatch runner he won the Military Medal for his services on the Ypres Salient on 13/14 June 1916. On 2 September 1916 he was wounded in action (slight wound to the back) on the Pozieres Ridge. Recovering he was able to rejoin his unit. On 1 November 1918 he was appointed an Acting Serjeant. In March 1919 he returned to England and thence to Canada in April. He was discharged from the 32nd Canadian Battalion on 23 April 1919.
With copied service papers and other research. 1695
A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal J. Bowman, 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, who died of wounds in France on 5 November 1917
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (24772 L. Cpl., 13/Durh. L.I.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (24772 Cpl., Durh. L.I.) good very fine and better (3)
£320-360 M.M. London Gazette 12 December 1917.
Joseph Bowman was born and lived in Crossgate Moor, Durham and enlisted at Durham. Serving with the 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, he died of wounds on 5 November 1917, aged 27 years. He was buried in the Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, Seine-Maritime, France. He was the son of Sarah Bowman of Neville’s Cross, Co. Durham.
1696 A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Serjeant T. Stonehouse, 22nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry
MILITARYMEDAL, G.V.R. (22-683 Pte., 22/Durh. L.I.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (22-683 Sjt., Durh. L.I.) extremely fine (3)
£280-320 M.M. London Gazette 16 July 1918. The recipient came from Seaham Harbour. The medals, each with silver brooch bar, are in individual fitted cases. With riband bar. 1697 A Great War M.M. pair awarded to Sergeant J. H. Lewis, 6th Battalion, South Wales Borderers
MILITARYMEDAL, G.V.R. (6-17284 Sjt: J. H. Lewis. 6/S.W. Bord:); BRITISHWARMEDAL (7284 Sjt. J. H. Lewis. S. Wales Bord.) nearly extremely fine
£250-300 The following citation is published in The 25th Division in France & Flanders:
‘MESSINES June 1917. A few days before the Messines attack, a gas shell penetrated a dug out in which this NCO and 14 men were living. The majority of the men were gassed before they had time to adjust their respirators. Sgt Lewis was on the point of putting on his own respirator when he noticed that the respirator of one of the wounded men had been broken, so he put his own respirator on the wounded man, and just managed to get him out of the gas, when he was gassed himself.’
Served in France from 24 September 1915 and entitled to 1914-15 Star trio. He was transferred to Class Z Reserve on 14 March 1919. Sold with copied m.i.c.
1698 A Great War M.M. pair awarded to Gunner A. Stoddart, Royal Artillery
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (110799 Gnr. A. Stoddart, 249/Sge. By. R.G.A.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (110799 Gnr. A. Stoddart, R.G.A.), very fine or better (2)
£180-220 M.M. London Gazette 12 December 1917. Andrew Stoddart was from Edinburgh; sold with 249 Siege Battery war diary extracts. 1699
A Great War M.M. awarded to Private G. Craig, 1/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died of wounds, France, 7 June 1918
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (242177 Pte., 5/North’d. Fus.) edge bruising, nearly very fine M.M. London Gazette 6 August 1918.
£240-280
George Craig was born in Lintz, Durham and enlisted at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Serving with the 1/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers he was awarded the Military Medal. He died of wounds on 7 June 1918, aged 20 years. He was buried in the Vailly British Cemetery, Aisne, France. George Craig was the son of William and Isabella Craig of 13 Northumberland Square, Blaydon, Co. Durham.
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