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GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY 114 A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Corporal R. Hockheimer, Royal Army Medical Corps


MILITARYMEDAL, G.V.R. (4567 Pte. R. Hockheimer, 21/F.A. R.A.M.C.); 1914 STAR, WITH CLASP (4567 Pte. R. Hockheimer, R.A. M.C.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (4567 Pte. R. Hochheimer, R.A.M.C.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (7246052 Cpl. R. Hochhe imer, M.M., R.A.M.C.), note differences in surname spelling, edge bruising, contact marks and polished, thus fair to fine (5)


£280-320 M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916.


Reginald Hockheimer first went to France as a Private in the R.A.M.C. on 26 October 1914. His subsequent award of the M.M. - for services in 21 Field Ambulance, 7th Division - was undoubtedly in respect of operations on the Somme in 1916, where his unit acted in support of the capture of Mametz, the battles of Bazentin and Guillemont, and the attacks on High Wood and Delville Wood.


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A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal H. Jackson, 9th, late 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers MILITARYMEDAL, G.V.R. (G-13140 Pte-L. Cpl., 9/R. Fus.); 1914-15 STAR (13140 Pte., R. Fus.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (GS-13140 Cpl., R. Fus.)


Three: Private O. Jackson, Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 STAR (GS-13087 Pte., R. Fus.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (GS-13087 Pte., R. Fus.) good very fine (7)


£440-550 Harold Jackson


Private Harold Jackson, 25th (Service) Battalion (Frontiersmen) Royal Fusiliers, entered the East African theatre of war on 4 May 1915. Wounded in action at the Soko Nassai River on 21 March 1916 and later invalided to England suffering from dysentery and fever. Later with the 9th (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers in France where he earned the Military Medal (London Gazette 16 July 1918) ‘for carrying messages under heavy machine-gun fire at the front’ (ref. newspaper clipping) North of Albert on 5 April 1918. With letter informing his mother he had been wounded in action; 36th Brigade card ‘for his gallant conduct on 5 April 1918 assisting operations North of Albert’ - this card in glazed frame, 225 x 195mm.; protection certificate; certificate of transfer to the reserve; newspaper clipping; and 12th Division card re. his distinguished service; together with copied m.i.c., gazette extract and other research.


Oliver Jackson


Private Oliver Jackson, Royal Fusiliers, entered the Asiatic theatre of war on 10 April 1915. With copied m.i.c. The two were brothers - sons of Mrs Ada Jackson, of 193 Ashby Road, Hale, Cheshire.


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A Great War Passchendaele operations M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal H. R. Haxby, 8th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, a veteran of the Gallipoli operations who was wounded on three separate occasions


MILITARYMEDAL, G.V.R. (2371 Cpl. H. R. Haxby, 8/Aust. Inf.); 1914-15 STAR (2371 Pte. H. R. Haxby, 8/Bn. A.I.F.): BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (2371 Cpl. H. R. Haxby, 8 Bn. A.I.F.), very fine and better (3)


£500-600 M.M. London Gazette 4 February 1918. The original recommendation states:


‘For conspicuous gallantry near Passchendaele, east of Ypres during operations on 26 November 1917. The mortar, of which the N.C. O. was in charge during the operations, was subject to very heavy shelling by the enemy and finally put out of action. Corporal Haxby, although wounded, made repeated trips through the enemy barrage, transferring the remaining ammunition to another mortar. He set a fine example of gallantry and disregard of personal safety.’


Harold Rowland Haxby was born at Northcote, Victoria and enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in May 1917. Drafted to the 8th Battalion, he was embarked for Gallipoli in mid-July 1915, from whence he was evacuated to hospital in Alexandria that December, suffering from debility. In the interim, the Battalion had suffered heavily in the battles of Krithia and Lone Pine.


Next embarked for France in April 1916, he was attached to 2nd Australian Brigade’s Light Trench Mortar Battery and was slightly wounded during the course of June and then severely wounded - in the left leg and shoulder - in October. Having then returned to his unit in the Field, he was wounded for a third occasion in the course of winning his M.M. for the above cited deeds in October 1917 - namely gunshot wounds to his right arm and neck, as a consequence of which he was evacuated to England. Haxby was discharged in Australia in February 1919 and died at Heidelberg, Melbourne in August 1957, aged 60 years.


Sold with copied service record and M.M. recommendation.


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A Great War M.M. Bourlon Wood 1918 operations group of four awarded to Private A. Mercier, 14th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Royal Montreal Regiment), who was twice wounded in action


MILITARYMEDAL, G.V.R. (23211 Pte. A. Mercier, 14/Quebec R.); 1914-15 STAR (23211 Pte. A. Mercier, 14/Can. Inf.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (23211 Pte. A. Mercier, 14-Can. Inf.), very fine (4)


£600-800 M.M. London Gazette 3 July 1919.


Arthur Mercier was born at Thetford Mines, Quebec in September 1893 and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in September 1914. Initially drafted to the 12th Battalion Canadian Infantry, he transferred to the 14th Battalion in France in May 1915 but was invalided to England after receiving a gunshot wound to his left shoulder and face in May 1916.


Having then rejoined his unit in the Field in August of the same year, he was wounded in the left leg and chest in May 1917 and once again invalided to England. Finally, in late September 1918, after rejoining the 14th, he won his M.M. for gallantry in the attack on Bourlon Wood, which distinction was approved in a Divisional Order dated 9 November 1918. He was discharged at Montreal in January 1919.


Sold with copied research including service records and war diary extracts. www.dnw.co.uk


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