Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry 37
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. pair awarded to Captain G. W. Harvey, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action at Amiens on 12 April 1918
Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in case of issue; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. G. W. Harvey.) good very fine (2)
£600-£800
M.C. London Gazette 16 September 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He proceeded through heavy barrage to a forward observing post, where under very heavy fire and in imminent risk of capture he continued to observe till dark, at times having to go forward to a signalling station to repair the line, as his signallers were badly gassed. His observation alone stopped a very determined hostile attack, and his determination, fearlessness and resource were most valuable at a critical juncture.’
George Winfred Harvey, of Ashmeadow in Bury, Lancashire, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force), and landed in France with them in March 1917. Advanced Captain, he was serving with A Battery, 169th Brigade when he was killed in action at Amiens on 12 April 1918, and he is buried at Boves West Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Major D. W. Gunston, Irish Guards, who was later a Member of Parliament and made a Baronet for his services as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer 1931-36
Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. D. W. Gunston. I. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. D. W. Gunston.) edge bruising and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine (4)
£800-£1,200 M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.
Derrick Wellesley Gunston was born in 1891, son of Major B. H. Gunston, 5th Dragoon Guards, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served during the Great War with the Irish Guards and won his M.C. in the attack on Cariboo and Cannon Trenches on the outskirts of Boesingle village, 31 July/1 August 1917, when he commanded the 2nd battalion. The battalion lost 6 officers and 280 O/Rs in this attack. Gunston was second-in-command of the 1st Battalion in 1918; Major, 7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, 1939. Conservative M.P. for Gloucestershire (Thornbury Division) 1924-1945; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Kingsley Wood, M.P. 1926, to Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1931-36, and to Sir Edward Grigg, Joint Under-Secretary for War 1940-42; Member of the Parliamentary Mission to Newfoundland 1943. Gunston was created a Baronet in 1938. He died on 13 July 1985.
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A Great War ‘Arras 1917’ M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant H. J. Lodge, Lincolnshire Regiment, late Armoured Car Section, Royal Naval Air Service, with whom he served in German South-West Africa in 1915
Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (F.947, H. J. Lodge, A.M.1, R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. H. J. Lodge.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star, 1 clasp, Atlantic; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these last four all unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (8)
£1,000-£1,400
M.C. London Gazette 18 July 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He took command of the Company at a critical period, when the front line was obscure. He completed the capture and consolidation of the position, and showed great courage and ability throughout.’
Harold John Lodge was born in Lincoln on 23 June 1890, and enlisted into the Royal Naval Air Service on 16 November 1914, and, being a mechanic by trade, was immediately rated Petty Officer Mechnic. He was drafted into the R.N. Armoured Car Division with whom he served in German South-West Africa, 28 March to 9 July, 1915 (ADM 188/561 refers). Commissioned into the Lincolnshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant in April 1916, he went on to win the M.C. for services on the Western Front, where he served until 28 April 1917. Lodge was recalled from the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on the renewal of hostilities in 1939, once more as a Lieutenant in the Lincolnshire Regiment, although he appears to have been placed on the Unattached List in 1941, following a stint of service on Air Defence Duties. It seems improbable, therefore, that he would be entitled to the France and Germany Star with Atlantic clasp.
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