WW1. British War Medal. Merredy. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. KIA #sherborne booklet and box

booklet and box

The medals are very fine

about as struck

BRITANNIA in exergue

otherwise a nice flat and evenly struck coin

WW1. British War Medal. Merredy. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. KIA #sherborne booklet and boxThe British War Medal awarded to Private 8216 S. R. Merredy, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, who was Killed in Action in France on 9 August 1915. Samuel Richard Merredy was born circa 1888 and resided in Birmingham, where he worked as a dipper. Less than a year before the outbreak of the Great War he was married to Sarah Ann Shaw at the Immanuel Parish Church, and together the couple resided at 66 William Street in Edgbaston. The newlyweds were