A Great War Military Medal and Bar group to SJT Hebdon 7 R FUS / A POW

GV Military Medal & Bar, correctly impressed G-10445 Pte B Hebdon. 7/R.FUS:

Pair PS-10445 SJT. B. Hebdon. R. FUS

 Condition = GVF (official correction to last 3 letters of surname on MM and Regt is corrected. )

Sold with a number of pieces of original ephemera, letters from his friends, pictures of the recipients and his comrades and discharge documents.

Bernard Hebdon was born in Barnard Castle in 1896, in civilian life he was a Dairyman, assisting his father on the family farm.

He first served in the 28^th Royal Fusiliers , the Public Schools Bn, before being transferred to the 7^th. It was with the 7^th that he would win the Military Medal and bar, the awards gazetted  on the 18^th of June 1917 and the 12^th on June 1918.

Hebdon was taken prisoner on the 22^nd of August 1918 and was held for the remainder of the war. He returned to Barnard Castle and ran a Dairy Farm, East Langton Farm. He passed away in 1963