Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Great War ‘Battle of Bapaume’ M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant E. J. C. Maddison, 25th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, subsequently a prisoner of war

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Lieut. E.J.C. Maddison, Machine Gun Corps’; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); with card box of issue and a group picture with recipient identified, this taken from a contemporary publication, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-350

M.C. London Gazette 26 July 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When in charge of four guns with a Sub. Section officer he fought them for two days on, and at long and close range, inflicting heavy enemy casualties and supporting infantry retirements, until all his guns had been destroyed by shell or machine gun fire and only six men remained. Subsequently he went into action with a tank controlling a Lewis gun and later assumed command of two guns in another machine gun corps. His fine courage and energy were beyond praise.’

Despatches twice London Gazette 9 April 1917 and 7 November 1917.

Lieutenant E. J. C. Maddison was taken prisoner of war on 10 April 1918 whilst serving with the 25th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. He was repatriated on 29 November 1918.