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27 & 28 February 2019

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Lot

№ 35

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27 February 2019

Hammer Price:
£500

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Lieutenant H. S. Woolley, Royal Garrison Artillery

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. H. S. Woolley); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., with two Additional Award Bars for ‘Long Service 1945’ and ‘Long Service 1953’ (Divnl. Comdt. Herbert S. Woolley), very fine and better (5) £600-800

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918:
‘For continued good work and devotion to duty. During October 1917 at Boesinghe whenever the Battery came under heavy fire, he invariably remained calm and collected, taking all possible steps to prevent damage to equipment or loss of ammunition.’

Herbert Smith Woolley was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery in March 1917.