Four: Acting Serjeant R. H. Gill, King’s Royal Rifle Corps - who was awarded the Military Medal

1914-15 Star ((A-3060 L. Cpl., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (A-3060 A. Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); France, Medaille Militaire, silver, gilt and enamel, enamel loss to reverse, generally good very fine except where stated (8) £200-260

M.M. Edinburgh Gazette 20 November 1916. ‘A.3060 Actg. Sjt. R. H. Gill, K.R. Rif. C.’

Medaille Militaire London Gazette 14 July 1917. ‘A.3060 Acting Serjeant Rupert Hartley Gill, King’s Royal Rifle Corps’.

Citation for the M.M. as listed in The King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1916:

‘A.3060 A-Sergeant Rupert Gill. After all the officers of his company were killed or wounded, continued to lead his men up to the German trench, where they were received with showers of bombs. Many of these bombs he hurled back into the German trench, and continued doing so until he received a painful wound in the hand. After having this wound dressed he returned to the German trench, and was dangerously wounded there.’

Acting Serjeant Gill, 9th Battalion K.R.R.C. earned the M.M. at Delville Wood, 24 August 1916, being twice wounded in the action, as related above.

Sold with a Royal Life Saving Society Medal, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘R. H. Gill, Oct. 1907’ and two ‘L. A. O. Sandow’s Exercise’ Crosses, bronze, unnamed; with metal badge. With copied research.