A Great War M.C. awarded to Captain G. Fairbairn, Royal Engineers

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse contemporarily engraved ‘George Fairbairn. Captain, Royal Engineers, December 1917’, in case of issue, extremely fine £500-£700

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 14 December 1917.

George Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh on 22 April 1880 and trained as a Mining Engineer. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers, he was advanced Captain and was awarded the Military Cross. He saw further served in home defence during the Second World War, and died in London in December 1946.

Sold with the recipient’s Military Identity Card; two photographs of the recipient; and other ephemera.