WW1 PASSCHENDALE MACHINE GUN CORPS MILITARY MEDAL GROUP CPL LYONS BRITISH ARMY

Description

Offered is a WW1 Military Medal group of 3 to Corporal Lyons, 165^th Company Machine Gun Corps. This consists of: Military Medal (King George V) impressed named 5884 P^TE G.H.LYONS. 165/C^OY M.G.C.; War and Victory Medal impressed named 58840 CPL. G.H. LYONS M.G.C. The medals are period swing mounted however the pin is missing on the rear of the bar. Comes with copies of the medal index card, medal roll, War Diary pages for October, London Gazette, and Sheffield Daily Telegraph newspaper article January 16^th 1918.

 Corporal George H Lyons. 58840. From Sheffield.

Landed France post 1/1/1916. MM London Gazette 11/1/1918. Award No 119111. Rank shown Pte.

Award numbers 118,000-119,999 covers October 1917 actions at Ypres.

165th MG Company War Diary is available. The diary entries for September-October- November contain numerous records of actions, any of which could have been the incident for which Pte Lyons was awarded his MM.

165th MG Company was formed in 55th Division, 26 February 1916. Moved into No 55 Bn, MGC 7 March 1918.