A Military Medal and Bar recipient’s casualty Victory Medal awarded to Corporal F.T. Whitehead, 17th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, later 23rd (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment who saw service on the Western Front from 17th November 1915 being awarded the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 21st October 1916 for bravery during the Battle of the Somme where he carried small arms ammunition under very heavy shell fire, the Bar to his Military Medal would be announced in the London Gazette of 16th August 1917 for carrying the wounded under heavy shell fire in the area of White Chateau in the Ypres Salient. He died of wounds on 14th September 1917 and is buried in Reninghelst Military Cemetery.
Victory Medal; (F-823 CPL. F.T. WHITEHEAD . MIDD’X R.)
Condition: Good Very Fine
Philip T. Whithead was born in Bethnal Green, and having enlisted at Tottenham on 18th February 1915 subsequently saw service with the 17th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment – First Football Battalion and later with the 23rd (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment – Second Football Battalion, he would serve on the Western front from 17th November 1915.
Whitehead would be awarded the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 21st October 1916 for bravery serving with the 17th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment during the Battle of the Somme for carrying up small arms ammunition under very heavy shell fire between Delville Wood and Waterlot Farm, he would then later be awarded the Bar to the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 16th August 1917 for carrying the wounded under heavy shell fire in the area of White Chateau in the Ypres Salient whilst serving with the 23rd (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment.
Sergeant Philip Thomas Whitehead died of wounds on 14th September 1917 and is buried in Reninghelst Military Cemetery and is noted as the son of Philip Thomas and Emily Whitehead; husband of Rose Emily Whitehead, of 146, Silver St., Upper Edmonton, London.
