Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed (Capt. Edgar Lancelot Banfield, Royal Irish Fusiliers, E.E.F. 1915-1918) together with original commission document 14 March 1916, M.I.D. certificate dated 25 October 1917, and record of service, extremely fine £200-250

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. M.I.D. London Gazette 28 November 1917.

Served in Egypt October 1914 to April 1915; Gallipoli August to September 1915; Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and Islands of Agean Sea October 1915 to September 1917; Egyptian Expeditionary Force September 1917 to October 1918; H.Q. Northern Force and G.H.Q. October 1918 to July 1920. Transferred to R.A.R.O. and Royal Army Service Corps in May 1939 and served in the U.K. throughout the Second World War.