Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private F. Mayhead, Hampshire Regiment, who was three times wounded during the Great War

1914-15 Star (17663 Pte. F. Mayhead. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals (17663 Pte. F. Mayhead. Hamps. R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5485362 Pte. F. Mayhead, Hamps. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (5485362 Pte. F. Mayhead. Hamps. R.) edge bruising and contact marks to the Great War awards, these very fine, the GSM and LS&GC extremely fine (5) £160-£200

Frank Mayhead attested for the Hampshire Regiment in August 1914, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War in the Balkans theatre of War from 5 October 1915, where he was engaged in various operations in the Suez Canal zone, and suffered a gun shot wound to the head on 28 December 1915. ‘In 1917 he was drafted to the Western Front, and was wounded in action in the third Battle of Ypres, and again during the Advance in October 1918. Later he returned to England, and in 1920 was serving in Ireland’ (National Roll of the Great War refers). He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in October 1933, and saw further service in pre-War Palestine.

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