Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second and Third Award Bars awarded to Sergeant George Power, 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was wounded in action on five occasions before dying from wounds on 1 December 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars (8714 Sjt: G. Power. Y. & L.R.) good very fine £1,800-£2,200

M.M. London Gazette 22 January 1917.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917.

2nd Bar to M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.

George Power was born at Haggerston, East London, on 19 May 1890, and enlisted into the York and Lancaster Regiment on 22 May 1907, and completed his 7 years with the Colours on 21 May 1914, when he was posted to the reserve and civilian life. He rejoined his regiment on the outbreak of war and landed with the 2nd Battalion at St Nazaire on 9 September 1914. Remarkably, he was wounded on five separate occasions during the war as follows:

9 August 1915: Hooge, shrapnel wound to the head, 14 days hospital; 19 January 1916: Poperinghe, bomb wound right hand, 25 days hospital; May 1916: Morteldje Sector, severe gunshot wound to jaw, 82 days hospital; 17 October 1917: Loos, burns to face and right hand, 30 days hospital; 29 November 1917: Cambrai, wounded. Sergeant Power succumbed to his wounds and died on 1 December 1917. He is commemorated by name on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval. In addition to the M.M. and two Bars, Power also received a Distinguished Conduct Card, presented to him when he was in hospital in the U.K. in June 1916, recovering from his wounded jaw. Sold with detailed research.