Sold with a small quantity of original documents and a portrait photograph, the former including a letter of notification for the recipient's attendance at a Buckingham Palace Investiture (dated 30.4.1919).

A.M. London Gazette 28.2.1919 'A Platoon was engaged in attack practice at Wouldham, in the course of which the Rifle Sections advanced under cover of a rifle bomb barrage. The Riflemen had reached a point some 20 yards in advance of the bombers, when, owing to a defective cartridge, one of the bombs fired from the right flank, where Lieutenant Simmons, Middlesex Regiment, was stationed as Bombing Officer, fell about four yards in the rear of the Riflemen. Lieutenant Simmons, who was behind the Bombers, at once rushed forward, and, as there was no time to pick up the bomb and throw it away, he kicked it away. It exploded immediately and he received severe wounds. Lieutenant Simmons undoubtedly saved some of the men from injury or death at the cost of injury to himself and at the risk of his own life'.

Lieutenant Edward Arthur Simmons, A.M., was attached to the 5th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment at the time of the above incident.

N.B. See Lot 724 for related Dress Miniatures and Identity Bracelet.