Orders, Decorations and Medals

A great War M.C. group of four awarded to Major Sir D. W. Gunston, Irish Guards

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut., I.Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) edge bruises and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine (4) £450-550

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, Gloster Regt., 1939. Conservative M.P. for Gloucestershire (Thornbury Division) 1924-45; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Kingsley Wood, M.P. 1926, to Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor off 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.