Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘First Day of the Somme’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain M. R. Anderson, Royal Field Artillery, late Dorset Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. M. R. Anderson, Dorset R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. R. Anderson), good very fine (4) £900-1200

M.C. London Gazette 20 October 1916:

‘For conspicuous gallantry during a heavy bombardment. He repeatedly visited his guns and observed fire from exposed positions under heavy fire. On one occasion he located and silenced a machine-gun, which was firing at our attacking troops.’

Matthew Roy Anderson, who first entered the French theatre of war as a subaltern in the Dorsets in December 1915, was attached to a Trench Mortar Battery in the Royal Field Artillery at the time of the above cited deeds on 1 July 1916 (official records refer).