£400
Military Medal, 265037 Sjt D Leadbeater 1/7 N & D R-T F, with cap badge, shoulder titles and copied research
Provenance: Dixons Medals, Bridlington
Military Medal: London Gazette, 19 November 1917 "For gallantry when the Battalion was in the Cambrin left sub sector on 2/3rd September 1917 and Sgt Leadbeater was in charge of a working party. A 5.9 German shell dropped into a Stokes Mortar dump and two men of the Stokes Mortar battery were buried. The Stokes ammunition was exploding, but he continued to dig them out until they were released entirely, regardless of personal risk."
Sgt Daniel Leadbeater of Wilford, Nottingham, 1/7 (Robin Hood) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regt) was Killed in Action on 21 March 1918 during an enemy barrage on the front line in the Noreuil Sector. Arras Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France
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