Lot Archive

Lot

№ 270

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5 November 1991

Hammer Price:
£280

Five: Major Samuel Dawson, Royal Artillery

MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., reverse named (Capt., R.F.A. Flanders); BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. (Major); Belgium, ORDER OF THE CROWN, 4th class breast badge in silver gilt and enamel, damaged on several arms and both centres; Belgium, CROIX DE GUERRE, the group mounted for display, unless otherwise described, very fine (5)

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.