Orders, Decorations and Medals

An important Gallipoli D.C.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant Samuel Bayley, 1/9th Manchester Regiment, for the action in which Lieutenant W. T. Forshaw won the Victoria Cross
Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (180 Cpl., 1/9 Manch. Regt.-T.F.); 1914-15 Star (180 Cpl., Manch.R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (180 Sjt., Manch.R.) extremely fine (4)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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D.C.M. London Gazette 16 November, 1915: “For conspicuous bravery on the 7th and 9th August, 1915, at Cape Helles (Dardanelles). Corporal Bayley remained with Lieutenant Forshaw, V.C., holding a barricade for forty-one hours continuously. On the evening of the 8th August his party was relieved by another unit, but he volunteered to remain on. He displayed the greatest gallantry and endurance under the most trying circumstances in repelling many severe attacks, and when the barricade was at last broken through he was the foremost in the successful counter-attack led by Lieutenant forshaw, which regained it, and finally retained it. On being ultimately relieved he was utterly exhausted by his arduous and gallant work of bomb-throwing.”
M.I.D. London Gazette 11 December, 1915.
Sold with original M.I.D. certificate and copies from the battalion War Diary describing the ‘Vineyard’ action.