Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War North Russia M.C. group of three awarded to Captain C. H. Fuller, Middlesex Regiment, attached 45th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. C. H. Fuller) extremely fine (3)
£1200-1500

M.C. London Gazette 21 January 1920: Lieut. Charles Hutson Fuller, Middlesex Regt., attd. 45th Bn., R. Fus.

“For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On 10th August, 1919, during the attack on Lipovets, he led his company to the attack against machine-gun fire. The attack was successful, but he was shot through the stomach. His evacuation through the forest, which was much harassed by parties of the enemy, lasted for 48 hours, during which he showed great pluck.”

Sold with Ministry of Pensions correspondence granting a ‘disablement addition’ to his retired pay and wound pension of £100 a year, for ‘gunshot wound , left buttock and pelvis’; and an original news cutting concerning his death during the Second World War, having recently resigned as a Major serving with the 5th Bn. West Sussex Home Guard, which states, “He was seriously wounded in Russia in 1919 and the wound never healed. Despite this he made repeated applications to the War Office to be allowed to serve with the regular forces during the present war... He was a very fine soldier and when his wound compelled his resignation from the Home Guard the Battalion suffered a grievous loss. From 1915 to 1926 he served with the second Middlesex Regiment, winning the M.C. and mention in dispatches.”