Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1449

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£1,300

A Great War ‘Gallipoli’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Private John Jackson, Essex Regiment, for ‘stalking and shooting snipers’
Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (2173 Pte., 7/Essex R.-T.F.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (2173 Pte., Essex R.), mounted as worn, with fragment of ribbon for a 1914-15 Star, some edge bruising and pitting, nearly very fine (3) £1200-1400

D.C.M. London Gazette 21 June 1916. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in stalking and shooting snipers, frequently alone’.
M.I.D. London Gazette 11 July 1916.

Private John Jackson, 7th Battalion Essex Regiment, enlisted on 17 June 1913. During the Great war he entered the Balkan theatre of war on 11 August 1915 and serving in Gallipoli, was awarded the D.C.M. for the highly skilled and dangerous job of stalking and shooting enemy snipers. He was discharged on 5 May 1916 as a result of wounds received. In addition to the above medals he was entitled to both the 1914-15 Star and Silver War Badge. Sold with copied m.i.c., Silver War Badge roll extract, gazette and war diary extracts.