Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Great War Military Medal Group of 3 awarded for "Attending to and Bringing in The Wounded on The Bapaume Cambrai Road March 1918", awarded to Lance Corporal G.H. Goodwin, 9th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, comprising Military Medal G.V.R. (25296 L.Cpl. G.H. Goodwin 9/L.N. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (25296 Pte. G.H. Goodwin L.N. Lan. R.). Good very fine. (3)
Military Medal London Gazette, 27 June 1918
Extract from the book "The 25th Division in France", page 315:
"Private Crew as a Battalion runner and Privates Barnes, Livesay, Lowe and Glease and Lance Corporal Goodwin were all conspicuous for their bravery and disregard of danger in attending to and bringing in the wounded."
Lance Corporal George H Goodwin lived at 126 Berkely Street, Nelson, Lancashire, was wounded twice in France and was in hospital in England when the award of his MM was printed. He was 26 years old and before the War was employed by Messrs. Sagar and Co. as a weaver.
Sold with copy m.i.c., copies of the Battalion War Diary in which he is mentioned, copies of the 25th Division in France, in which he is again mentioned, and a copy portrait photograph of L/Cpl Goodwin in uniform wearing the ribbon of the MM.
Estimate: £350-450
Military Medal London Gazette, 27 June 1918
Extract from the book "The 25th Division in France", page 315:
"Private Crew as a Battalion runner and Privates Barnes, Livesay, Lowe and Glease and Lance Corporal Goodwin were all conspicuous for their bravery and disregard of danger in attending to and bringing in the wounded."
Lance Corporal George H Goodwin lived at 126 Berkely Street, Nelson, Lancashire, was wounded twice in France and was in hospital in England when the award of his MM was printed. He was 26 years old and before the War was employed by Messrs. Sagar and Co. as a weaver.
Sold with copy m.i.c., copies of the Battalion War Diary in which he is mentioned, copies of the 25th Division in France, in which he is again mentioned, and a copy portrait photograph of L/Cpl Goodwin in uniform wearing the ribbon of the MM.
Estimate: £350-450