Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Corporal C. Dobing, Royal Garrison Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (191230 Cpl., ‘M’ A.A. By. R.G.A.) good very fine £160-200

M.M. London Gazette 2 April 1918.

Gunner Charles Dobing, Royal Garrison Artillery, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 10 March 1915. ‘M’ A.A. Battery was a Third Army unit commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel W. Lewis and was armed with 13 pounder anti-aircraft guns. Sited in a ‘Forward Line’, the battery had six sections deployed with its guns 4000 yards apart. The award of a Military Medal to an A.A. unit is unusual and may have been because of Corporal Dobing’s bravery during the period of the great German counter attack following the Battle of Cambrai when many Artillery units were surrounded and overrun. By the end of the war Dobing had attained the rank of Serjeant. He was placed in the class ‘Z’ reserve in January 1919. Entitled to the 1914-15 Star in addition to the British War and Victory Medals. With copied research.