Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal M. Metcalfe, Royal Dublin Fusiliers

1914-15 Star (14289 L-Cpl. M. Metcalf. R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (14289 Cpl. M. Metcalf R.D. Fus.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze palm on riband, very fine and better, the last rare to unit (4) £300-£400

Dix Noonan Webb, June 2006.

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 10 October 1918

Maurice Metcalfe attested for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and served with them during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 7 August 1915 - he is likely to have been part of the Sulva Bay landings on Gallipoli. Subsequently serving with the 10th Battalion on the Western Front, he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, one of just 18 such awards to the entire regiment, of which 7 were to other ranks.

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