WW1 Military Medal Group of (4) to Whitehead, 26th (Bankers) Battalion Royal Fusiliers, ex-18th Hussars
Military Medal George V; L-17110 J.G. Whitehead 26/R.Fus., 14/15 Star (11317 Pte. 18-Hrs.), BWM and VM (11317 Sjt. 18-Hrs.).
LG 16/02/17. (pg. 1756).
Near very fine, suspender bent on BWM.
James G. Whitehead served in the 18th Hussars, 26th (Bankers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and also Labour Corps and Corps of Hussars. He was wounded 27th January 1918 and admitted to No. 39 Casulaty Clearing Station.
The 26th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Bankers) (26th RF) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It was raised in the summer of 1915 by the Lord Mayor and City of London and recruited mainly from bank clerks and accountants. It served on the Western Front from May 1916, seeing action on the Somme and at Ypres. It was sent to the Italian Front, returning to the west in time to be flung into the breach during the German spring offensive. It then took part in the final advance to victory, eventually reaching the Rhine as part of the Army of Occupation.
