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1st man killed with 1st Btn Sherwood Foresters

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1/8th Sherwood Foresters - The first 2 of their men to be "missing"

A medal recently came into my hands with an intensely human story behind it that I feel compelled to share. It is just one of the 6.5 million British War Medals that were produced at the end of the Great War of 1914-19, and is therefore nothing special in itself. As with so many of these, it’s true value can only be found by discovering the story that lies behind it. As always, my start point came from the meagre details that the mint had punched into its rim, telling me that the medal was issu
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First man killed with 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regt

Introduction I have recently acquired a broken trio of medals that purported to have been awarded to the first man who had been killed in the Great War with the 1st Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters. Believing these to be of some historical importance, I have undertaken a raft of research to determine the validity of that claim, and I am publishing the results of that here. It turned out that, in a series of PM's exchanged with an undoubted expert on the Foresters, who frequently pos
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