As awarded to my Great Uncle, 26715 Battery Quartermaster Sergeant William H. Brown MM, 30th Battery, XXXIX Brigade, 1st Division Royal Field Artillery, who died 24th July 1916 aged 31 of injuries sustained during a German artillery bombardment in the first days of the Battle of the Somme, and who now rests at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt l’Abbe, France.

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The 1914 Star is often incorrectly referred to as the Mons Star