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№ 179

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15 May 2024

Hammer Price:
£750

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Major K. K. Drury, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was awarded the M.C. for his gallantry at St. Jean, Ypres, on 19 December 1915, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘St. Jean. K. K. Drury. 19-12-15. Ypres.’; 1914-15 Star (Capt. K. K. Drury R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major K. K. Drury.) mounted as worn; together wit hthe recipeint’s Royal Medico-Psychological Association badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘K. K. Drury M.C., M.D., D.P.M. President 1950-51’; and a silver presentation cross, the obverse showing a native African warrior at centre, ‘PGC’ on arms of cross, the reverse plain, good very fine (6) £700-£900

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Kenneth Kirkpatrick Drury served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War, and for his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 29 May 1917 and 25 May 1918) and awarded the Military Cross.

Sold with the recipient’s partial riband bar for the first three awards.