Mashvalleymilitaria
@Mashvalleymil
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Collector/researcher, Great War enthusiast, militaria, medals purchased,collections purchased , website temporarily closed
Leicestershire
Joined August 2017
Further to my rant about the melting down of silver war medals, this came up cheap on eBay, seller gave no name or regiment so I ‘saved’ it…. I’m so glad I did
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Purchased for the price of a average plaque, a DCM recipient who died of flu during the occupation of Germany post war, strange that collectors leave alone because he wasn’t killed in battle and a sad way for him to die after doing so much
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On this day 1916 the 1st btn Leicestershire regiment lost approximately 150 men at the quadrilateral at Ginchy (Somme) inc William Buckingham VC
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This is how I keep my plaques/medals and how they deserve to be displayed and researched
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Would anybody have any idea as to what This 2 and the colours are for, clearly a American made helmet Great War period m17
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#DDay81: When I visited Normandy for the first time in 1979 with my Dad we met Major John Howard DSO outside the Gondrée Café. By this time 81 years ago he and his men had taken the key bridges and the code words Ham & Jam signalling their capture filled the radio network.
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A unsurprisingly unique named plaque and nice image with his brothers, one of which also fell in the Great War
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This card has ‘Basil, 1915 on the reverse with a Rugby photographer, easily identified, 1st Birmingham pals battalion, Warwickshire regiment.
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Spotted today at Clovelly, it’s touching to think of George walking out of the village for the last time and knowing exactly where he was killed having been there on numerous occasions
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I am a lucky fella at times, a recent purchase, a specimen Great War memorial plaque made in 1919 (MCMXIX) before mass production with names added later
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Spotted this in the Somme mud on the site of a German redoubt, a Belgian 10 cents dated 1905, interestingly there are two extra holes in the coin, was this worn on a necklace as a good luck charm? Maybe picked up in Belgium in 1915, if only it could talk.
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Nice condition fuses found over the last two days, 3 British and the bottom right is German
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Found on the Somme a few days ago, a British CAMWAL mineral/soda bottle and German shot glass, amazing to have survived the plough for this long (almost)
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A lot of walking involved here. All surface finds. Oh what stories. This is 35 odd years finds.
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Latest purchase, Harry dunnaker, to France with BEF 26/8/14 shot in the right knee joint going to the trenches on xmas day 1914 at rue de epinette nr Richebourg, this probably saved his life as it was the end of his war, he lived to 73
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KIA #onthisday attacking Bazentin #Somme - 2nd Lt Eric Gutteridge. Leicester Reg, but a #Southampton boy. Family ran a toy shop, he attended @KESSouthampton. Commemorated on @CWGC Thiepval Memorial @apg1916 #ww1 #lestweforget
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14th July 1916 was the Leicestershire regiments service battalions attack on bazentin le petit wood and village, a successful but costly battle
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A typical medal purchase with the silver war medal having been sold for scrap decades ago, some collectors run a mile from a ‘broken’ group, to me it adds to the story
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