sterry Posted 18 September , 2021 Share Posted 18 September , 2021 Do you have anything on Samuel John Sterry born 1895? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sterry Posted 18 September , 2021 Author Share Posted 18 September , 2021 Lance corporal Samuel John Sterry 203595 Dunham light infantry do you have records of him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Rayner Posted 18 September , 2021 Share Posted 18 September , 2021 Courtesy of Ancestry UK, World War I Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 - Ancestry.co.uk George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Rayner Posted 18 September , 2021 Share Posted 18 September , 2021 Fold 3 have his attestation forms-40 pages Application Year 1914 Regiment Durham Light Infantry Residence 16 Hyde Park Street, Gateshead - on Tyne As does Ancestry UK, British Army World War I Service Records, 1914-1920 - Ancestry.co.uk seems he got a Military Medal and a DCM George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock1418 Posted 18 September , 2021 Share Posted 18 September , 2021 DCM with citation https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29528/supplement/3442 LONDON GAZETTE, 30 MARCH, 1916 2193 Private J. Sterry, 1/9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, T.F. For conspicuous gallantry when he voluntarily went out and brought in two wounded men of another regiment, one after the other, under heavy shell fire MM https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29854/supplement/12052 LONDON GAZETTE, 9 DECEMBER, 1916 2193 Pte. S. J. Sterry, Durh. L.I. MIC https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5379375 Shows landed France, 20.4.15 = 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal :-) M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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