BALMFORD David Claude
12/512 Warrant Officer class 2, East Yorkshire Regiment, WW1
Legion of Frontiersmen, England

CITATION
Military Cross
Gazetted 12 June 1917, p127
For conspicuous gallantry in action. He assumed command of his company, organising the consolidation of the position, posting snipers, and sending out bombing parties. He set a splendid example throughout.

KNOWN AWARDS
Military Cross
1914-15 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal

NOTES
Born
Died 8 March 1938 Yorkshire, England
Buried Pocklington Municipal Cemetery, Yorkshire, England

BATTLE HONOURS
Behobeho          East Africa 1915 - 1917          Nyangao          Kilimanjaro          Great War 1917          Belgium 1914 -18
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