Auction Catalogue

7 & 8 July 2010

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 880

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8 July 2010

Hammer Price:
£750

A Great War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Gunner J. A. Pettican, Royal Garrison Artillery

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (125172 Gnr., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (125172 Gnr., R.A.) mounted court style for wear, slight scratch to B.W.M. obverse, otherwise good very fine (3) £600-700

D.C.M. London Gazette 11 March 1920. ‘Gnr., 329th Sge. By., R.G.A. (Paddington)’ ‘For continual devotion to duty when in charge of the wireless station. At Bac St. Maur, in September, 1918, when the observation post was heavily shelled, he kept sending messages through until his aerial was broken by shell fire. As soon as it was possible he repaired the aerial and re-established communication with brigade headquarters’.

With some copied research.