Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar awarded to Sergeant R. C. Montgomery, 10th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (19124 Sjt: R. Montgomery. 10/R. Innis: Fus:) very fine £500-£700 --- M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918. Bar to M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919. Robert Charles Montgomery was born at Limavady, Derry, Ireland, on 11 July 1893. Living at Everton, near Liverpool, at the time of the outbreak of war in 1914, Robert and his brother Samuel travelled to Derry where they enlisted into the 10th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers with consecutive regimental numbers. Samuel was killed in action on 1 July 1916, but Robert survived the war, landing in France on 5 October 1915, and ending the war in the rank of Acting Company Sergeant Major having won the M.M. and Bar. He was discharged from the Army on 25 March 1919 and returned to Liverpool where he died aged 65. Sold with detailed research including an interesting article written by his grandson for a local newspaper on the 100th anniversary of the battle of the Somme which can be found in the following link: http:www.newsletter.co.uk/news/northern-ireland-news/the-somme-ulster-fry-confirmed-the-offensive-was-near-1-7457556#ixzz4DQN9owKi