Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

A Great War M.M. group of nine awarded to Major R. F. Hiscutt, Royal Army Service Corps, late Wiltshire Regiment and Tank Corps, who was wounded at Neuve Chappelle in 1915
Military Medal, G.V.R. (10334 Pte. R. F. Hiscutt. 2/Wilts: R.); 1914-15 Star (10334 Pte. R. F. Hiscutt. Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. R. F. Hiscutt.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, the Second War awards all privately engraved ‘Major R. F. Hiscutt. R.A.S.C.’; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of the Interior, bronze, unnamed, mounted as worn, generally good very fine and better

Pair: Flight Officer Violet L. Hiscutt, Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, both privately engraved ‘Flt/Off. V. L. Hiscutt’, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (11) £500-£700

M.M. London Gazette 14 September 1916

French Medal of Honour in bronze London Gazette 8 March 1920:
‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’

Reginald Frank Hiscutt was born in Barnes, Surrey, on 29 July 1894, and attested for the Wiltshire Regiment. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 December 1914, was wounded by gun shot to the right shoulder at Neuve Chappelle in 1915, and was awarded the Military Medal. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Tank Corps on 28 July 1917, he was appointed Equipment Officer on 19 May 1918. Demobilised following the cessation of hostilities, he was gazetted to the Royal Army Reserve of Officers in 1920.

A motor engineer and garage proprietor in civilian life, Hiscutt saw further service with the Royal Army Service Corps during the Second World War, serving initially as a Captain and temporary Major on attachment with the Royal Engineers, British Expeditionary Force in France from 20 October 1939, before being evacuated from St. Nazaire on 17 June 1940. He subsequently served in the Middle East with 39 Reserve Motor Transport Company from 22 August 1941 to 20 April 1942, and then spent the rest of the War in the U.K. He relinquished his commission on account of disability on 22 January 1946, and was granted the honorary rank of Major.

Violet Lily Hiscutt, the wife of Reginald Frank Hiscutt, served during the Second World War in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, being commissioned Assistant Section Officer on 25 August 1941, and subsequently advanced Flight Officer.

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