A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant L. R. Hutchison, Machine Gun Corps, late Army Service Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. L. R. Hutchison, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. R. Hutchinson), very fine or better (4) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Legh Richmond Hutchison was born in January 1890 and educated at Bradfield College. Enlisted in the Territorial Force direct from the Inns of Court O.T.C. in December 1914, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps in March 1915 and entered the French theatre of war that July, as a member of No. 3 Company, 19th Divisional Train. Remaining similarly employed until April 1918, he saw action at Loos in September 1915 and on the Somme in the following year and, after brief service in the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). And it was in this latter capacity, for services in the 33rd Battalion, M.G.C., that he was awarded the M.C., most probably for the heavy fighting encountered by that unit in October 1918; his brother, Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison, D.S.O., M.C., was onetime C.O. of the 33rd Battalion; sold with a file of research, including relevant war diary entries.