Orders, Decorations and Medals

A superb Great War ‘Asiago’ operations D.C.M. and M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant G. Bowery, 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (265791 Sjt. G. Bowery, M.M. 1/1 Bucks. Bn. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (265791 Cpl. L.Sjt. G. Bowery, 1/Bucks. Bn. O&B.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2519 Sjt. G. Bowery, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) mounted for wearing, nearly extremely fine (4) £2500-3000

D.C.M. London Gazette 25 February 1920 [Italy]: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during the attack north of Asiago on 1st November 1918. When his company was held up by a machine gun, he rushed forward in spite of very heavy fire and bombs. This gallant action on his part drew the whole fire of the enemy post on himself and enabled a rifle section on his flank to rush in and capture the hostile post.’

M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919 [Italy]. According to the Regimental Chronical this award was for the raid on Austrian lines on the night of 26th/27th August 1918, when the battalion, in conjunction with the 1/4th R. Berks., raided the Austrian trenches in the neighbourhood of Sec and Ave. Sold with copied extracts for this raid and the operations for which he subsequently won the D.C.M.