A Great War M.M. and Bar group of six awarded to Acting Serjeant W. Laughton, 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, late 2/6th Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (240053 Cpl.-L. Sjt., 2/6 Notts. & Derby. R.); 1914-15 Star (668 Cpl., Notts. & Derby. R.); British War and Victory Medals (668 Cpl., Notts. & Derby. R.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (240053 A. Sjt., 5/N. & D. R.) edge bruising, contact marks, worn through polishing (6)
£900-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters.

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M.M. London Gazette 7 October 1918.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 3 July 1919.


Corporal William Laughton, 1/6th Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 28 February 1915, serving with the H.Q. Company. As a Lance-Serjeant with the 2/6th Battalion he won the M.M. for bravery in the field. He was then transferred to the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment with whom he won the Bar to his M.M. He was disembodied on 13 February 1919. After the war he was employed as a Miner. He re-attested on 18 May 1920, then aged 33 years, 2 months and was discharged on 14 May 1921.

With copied research.