Auction Catalogue

13 December 2007

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 964

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13 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£1,500

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Private G. F. Badcock, Wiltshire Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal
, G.V.R. (27225 Pte., 1/Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (27225 Pte., Wilts. R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £1200-1400

D.C.M. London Gazette 3 September 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty as battalion runner. He repeatedly carried messages over ground swept by machine-gun fire, and on one occasion through the heaviest possible barrage, when he succeeded in safely delivering a message of vital importance to a company commander in the front line. By his courage and untiring energy he was largely instrumental in enabling the battalion to evacuate a position and thus avert complete destruction’. Recommendation additionally adds the location and date, ‘Hebuterne, 20 March 1918’.

Private Badcock came from Peckham. Sold with copied research, including extracts from the war diary and an extract from the 20 September 1918 edition of The South London Press which lists the above citation and other honours to South London servicemen.