Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. attributed to Lieutenant E. W. Bone, Royal Fusiliers

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Lieut. E. W. Bone, Royal Fusiliers’, in its case of issue, good very fine £400-500

M.C. London Gazette 10 December 1919:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and coolness S.E. of Le Cateau on 18 October 1918. At a critical moment of the attack, he re-organised and pushed forward the remnants of his company at the Quennelet Grange Farm. On a later occasion at Fontaine au Bois, his platoon accounted for several hostile machine-gun posts, and was instrumental in the capture of a battery of field guns.’

Ernest Wilfred Bone first went to France in September 1915, as a Corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers in February 1918, he won his M.C. for services on attachment to the 3rd Battalion; he relinquished his commission in April 1920, having served latterly in the 6th Battalion; sold with brief research.