Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 632

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£980

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Petty Officer C. E. Gibson, Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, twice wounded in action

Military Medal, G.V.R. (TZ-1271 P.O. Hawke Bn. R.N.V.R.); 1914-15 Star (TZ.1271 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (T.Z. 1271 P.O., R.N.V.R.); with ‘Strike Hawke’ cap badge, minor contact marks, very fine (5) £700-900

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Charles Edward Gibson was born on 13 December 1895. Living in Ashington, Northumberland and a Miner by occupation, he entered into the R.N.V.R. on 6 November 1914. Posted to the Hawke Battalion in 1915 he was promoted to Able Seaman in February 1916. With the battalion he served firstly in Salonika and then in France, arriving in Marseilles in May 1916. Serving at the front, he was admitted to the 1st Canadian General Hospital at Etaples in November 1916 having received multiple shrapnel wounds to his arm and left leg. From there he was invalided to England. Making a recovery, he returned to the Hawke Battalion in France in June 1917. In action, he was again wounded, suffering shrapnel wounds to his right arm on 31 December 1917. For his bravery in action during operations in early September 1917 he was awarded the Military Medal. Rated as an Acting Petty Officer in August 1918, he was demobilised at Ripon on 25 March 1919. With copied service papers and war diary extracts.