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24 May 2023

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№ 89

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24 May 2023

Hammer Price:
£600

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of five awarded to Captain D. Falconer, Gordon Highlanders, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the French Croix de Guerre

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Capt. D. Falconer. Gord. Highrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. D. Falconer.); Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaves, naming erased; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with silver star emblem on riband, good very fine (5) £700-£900

M.C. London Gazette 5 July 1918:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He was in command of a convoy of limbers, and removed large quantities of trench stores under most difficult conditions and heavy fire, thus saving much valuable material from falling into the hands of the enemy.’


M.I.D. London Gazette 25 May 1917.

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 7 October 1919.

Douglas Falconer was promoted Captain, Gordon Highlanders on 19 November 1914, and served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 February 1915.

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