Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant D. Cushny, 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, who was killed in action during the Battle of Shaiba, Mespotamia, 14 April 1915

1914-15 Star (Lieut. D. Cushny. Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. Cushny.) generally good very fine (3)

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004.

Donald Cushny was born in Shaghai in September 1891, the son of Alexander Cushny, a Land Agent in Shanghai. He was educated at St. Paul’s School, London and Heidelberg College. Cushny served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment in the Mesopotamian theatre of war from 6 November 1914. On the latter date the Battalion landed at Fao on the Persian Gulf for service in Mesopotamia as part of the Indian Expeditionary Force ‘D’.

Lieutenant Cushny was killed in action near Shaiba, Lower Mesopotamia, 14 April 1915, and is buried in Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.