Auction Catalogue

17 September 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 726

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17 September 1999

Hammer Price:
£620

A Great War ‘Beaumont Hamel’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain Forbes Sutherland, 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, late 16th Canadian Infantry

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘2.Lt., 7th Argyll & Sutherland Highrs., Beaumont Hamel 15th Nov. 1916’; 1914-15 Star (28840 L.Cpl., 16/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) nearly very fine (4) £300-350

M.C. London Gazette 10 January 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He assumed command of and led his company with great courage and initiative. He set a splendid example throughout.’

Forbes Sutherland was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 30 October 1915; Lieutenant, 1 July 1917; Adjutant and Acting Captain, 19 January 1919. He was wounded on 23 April 1917, in the attack on the chemical works at Roeux, near the village of Fampoux, when the 7th Battalion suffered their greatest losses of the entire war.