A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Major D. W. Gunston, Irish Guards, who was later a Member of Parliament and made a Baronet for his services as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer 1931-36

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. D. W. Gunston. I. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. D. W. Gunston.) edge bruising and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine (4) £800-£1,200

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Derrick Wellesley Gunston was born in 1891, son of Major B. H. Gunston, 5th Dragoon Guards, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served during the Great War with the Irish Guards and won his M.C. in the attack on Cariboo and Cannon Trenches on the outskirts of Boesingle village, 31 July/1 August 1917, when he commanded the 2nd battalion. The battalion lost 6 officers and 280 O/Rs in this attack. Gunston was second-in-command of the 1st Battalion in 1918; Major, 7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, 1939. Conservative M.P. for Gloucestershire (Thornbury Division) 1924-1945; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Kingsley Wood, M.P. 1926, to Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1931-36, and to Sir Edward Grigg, Joint Under-Secretary for War 1940-42; Member of the Parliamentary Mission to Newfoundland 1943. Gunston was created a Baronet in 1938. He died on 13 July 1985.