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№ 43

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1 March 2017

Hammer Price:
£1,100

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Major S. Dawson, Royal Field Artillery

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. S. Dawson R.F.A. Flanders’; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major S. Dawson.); Order of the Crown of Belgium, 4th class with palme; Belgian Croix de Guerre, nearly extremely fine (5) £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Julian Johnson Collection.

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M.C. London Gazette 1 January, 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January 1917, and 5 July 1919.

Order of the Crown and Croix de Guerre London Gazette 24 October 1919.

Major Samuel Dawson served in the ranks for 5 years before being commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery on 13 June, 1915. He served in France and Flanders from 1915 to 1919 and was wounded in action in May, 1918. Sold with copied research.