Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. GV with 'Regular Army' bar (7809701 Sjt. H. J. Bazley. R.E.)

Photographs & Biographical Details: Refer to the website www.reubique.com for an excellent  portrait photograph of the recipient in the uniform of the Machine Gun Corps, together with an assiduously researched summary of the recipients career and family history

Medals Verification: In addition to his LS&GC medal Staff-Sergeant Harold J. Bazley, is confirmed entitled to 2 x other war medals for his earlier front-line combat service during the Great War while serving with the Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front, and per the below referenced sources:

- British War Medal. Silver issue: WO 329/1747 shown as No. 67252 Pte. Machine Gun Corps
- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/1747 shown as No. 67252 Pte. Machine Gun Corps
- Military LS&GC. GV issue with 'Regular Army' bar: Awarded medal in 1934 after completing 18 years service with 'The Colours' 

Harold John Bazley, son of Samuel George Bazley (a former Labourer H.M. Dockyard, later described in 1911 as a Naval Pensioner) & Cecilia Mary Bazley (nee Mounce) was a native of Devonport, Devon, England, where he was born on, 2 May 1897. During the Great War he enlisted in the Devonshire Regiment in June 1916. He subsequently transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (M.G.C.) at the year’s end and served in 172 Company, M.G.C. in France from early 1917. Admitted to hospital with injuries to his legs during the Passchendaele offensive, he was posted to 48 Company, M.G.C. on his recovery, but then fell ill with pyrexia – a high fever – and was invalided home in January 1918. But he returned to France as a member of the 19th Battalion, M.G.C. in May 1918 and saw further action Cambrai and Selle, and on the Aisne

Post-war, he transferred to the Royal Engineers in March 1921 and served overseas in Malta and Singapore Colony, He was awarded his LS&GC medal in July 1934. Bazley was discharged as a Staff Sergeant in September 1938 and is recorded to have died in Aldershot, Hampshire, England on 14 September 1978

Condition: GVF

Code: 26051