Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain N. H. W. Saw, Royal Army Medical Corps, killed in action at the battle of Poelcappelle, 9 October 1917

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) mounted as worn, extremely fine (4) £900-1000

M.C. London Gazette 22 September 1916. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He worked incessantly for five days and nights tending the wounded brought in from “no mans land”. He went out himself to direct operations connected with collecting the wounded quite regardless of the heavy fire from the enemy’.

Noel Humphrey Wykeham Saw was commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. on 20 February 1915, and was attached to the 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. With them he served in Gallipoli, being promoted to Captain on 20 August 1915. The unit was withdrawn from the peninsula and rested in Egypt. In March 1916 the unit was transported on the Transylvania to France. Soon in action, Captain Saw won the M.C. for his bravery under fire. He was killed in action on 9 October 1917, aged 25 years, at the battle of Poelcappelle, during the Third Battle of Ypres. On that same day, Private Frederick Dancox of the 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment won the Victoria Cross. Captain Saw was buried in the Dozinghem Military Cemetery. He was the son of Samuel and Mary Elizabeth Saw of 11 Vanbrugh Park Road, Blackheath, London. Sold with some copied research.