ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single Orders and Decorations for Gallantry, A Great War Military Medal and “Trench Raid” Bar , awarded to Lance Corporal J.A. Mitchell, 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; Military Medal and 2nd award bar GVR (11767 L. Cpl J.A. Mitchell. 6/Gord: Hdrs. T.F.). Toned, very fine. £300-500
Military Medal London Gazette, 26 April 1917
Bar to the Military Medal London Gazette, 18 June 1917
At 6.10am on the morning of 5 March 1917, 300 men and 13 Officers took part in a Trench Raid at Roclincourt. “At zero minus 1 the artillery opened and punctually one minute later the first wave of raiders rushed over No-man’s Land and for the most part got into the German Trenches before the defenders could get out of their dug-outs, the second wave followed 50 yards behind the first with the objective of the German second line 70 yards further on. Considerable fighting took place in the German trenches – sixty German dead were counted and 21 prisoners captured including one officer, one machine-gun was brought back, one was smashed by a shell and 1 Anti-Aircraft gun was destroyed by bombs. Large mobile charges of ammonal and Stokes bombs were used to wreck shelters. In some cases, tins of petrol provided beforehand and perforated by the bayonet were flung down the dug-out stairs, followed a second later by a phosphorus bomb which ignited the petrol and made the dug-out a blazing inferno”. That afternoon Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haigh inspected the men who had taken part in the raid near Arras, the men parading in the dress and equipment they had worn in the attack. 54 men of the raiding party were killed, wounded or missing, 2 Military Crosses, 1 Distinguished Conduct Medal, 6 Military Medals and one Bar to the Military Medal were conferred upon the raiding party.
Sold with copied War Diary and Battalion History of the 6th Gordons in France and Flanders, MiC, and London Gazette entries.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single Orders and Decorations for Gallantry, A Great War February 1917 Casualty Military Medal, GVR (43656 Pte. C. Lawn. 8/Norf: R.) Toned, very fine but with red wax to shoulder of King. £150-200
Private Charles Lawn’s Military Medal was gazetted in the London Gazette of 8 January 1917, this Gazette covers operations on the Somme from August to November 1916, in the main, they are for actions of October 1916 at the Transloy Ridges and on the Ancre. These include Le Sars and Regina Trench – The Great War Medal Collectors Companion Vol 1 page 406 by Howard Williamsonrefers. Private Charles Lawn died, Home, 1 February 1917. Sold with copied London Gazette entries, Commonwealth War Graves information, Soldiers Died and M.i.C. See also lot 3976.
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