WW1. British War Medal. Merredy. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. KIA #sherborne Lettering: VICTORIA NOBIS EST

Lettering: VICTORIA NOBIS EST

manned by recruits who were naturalised British citizens but of enemy alien parentage

Date of Death (as a result of pulmonary tuberculosis)

below THE WORKHOUSE FOR 80 TOKENS

Mint name on coin: GRANTEB

WW1. British War Medal. Merredy. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. KIA #sherborne Lettering: VICTORIA NOBIS ESTThe 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