A Great War M.M. group of four medals to Corporal Peter Callan, Somerset Light Infantry: Military

A Great War M.M. group of four medals to Corporal Peter Callan, Somerset Light Infantry: Military Medal, George V (16259 L.CPL P. CALLAN. 7/SOM: L.I.); 1914-15 Star (16259 PTE P. CALLAN. SOM: L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (16259 CPL. P. CALLAN. SOM. L.I.), light contact marks, very fine, [4]; together with a copy of Brendon Moorhouse, 'Forged by Fire. The Battle Tactics and Soldiers of a World War One Battalion. The 7th Somerset Light Infantry'.

M.M. London Gazette 18/10/1917

Peter Callan enlisted at Bargoed, South Wales, on the 16th of November 1914, and arrived in France on the 24th of July 1915 having been tried by Court Martial in the previous month for desertion and loss of public property. His Military Medal was included in a Gazette covering the 3rd Battle of Ypres. On the 1st of April 1918 he suffered a severe 'shrapnel' wound from high explosive shell in the left buttock, for which he was admitted to hospital on the 5th. Peter Callan was discharged on the 1st of January 1919 and was awarded a Silver War Badge.