Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. and Bar group of four awarded to Lieutenant C. E. Park, Royal Engineers, late Seaforth Highlanders

Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse of the Cross privately engraved ‘C. E. Park, Lieut., R.E., 24.1.16 [to] 4.6.16’, and the reverse of the Bar ‘7th Novr. 1916’; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. C. E. Park, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. E. Park), together with R.E. cap badge, good very fine (5) £1600-1800

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Bar to M.C. London Gazette 21 December 1916:

‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He, accompanied by a Corporal and a party of men, worked one hour under intense fire and dug out a party of men who had been buried in a mine shaft.’

Charles Enverdale Park was originally commissioned in the Seaforth Highlanders as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 1915, and first went out to France in October 1915. Subsequently attached to the Royal Engineers, he won his first M.C. for operations in the period January-April 1916, followed by the award of his Bar for the above cited deeds on the Somme 7 November 1916, by which stage he had transferred to the R.E. on a permanent basis. Settling in Newcastle-on-Tyne after the War, he claimed his campaign medals in 1924.