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24 & 25 February 2016

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№ 88 x

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24 February 2016

Hammer Price:
£400

A Great War ‘Vimy’ M.M. group of three awarded to Serjeant B. C. MacDonald, Canadian Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (42627 Bmbr.-Cpl., 16/By. Can. F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (42627 Sjt., C.F.A.) good very fine (3) £360-400

M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

Citation: ‘On the night of August 12th 1917 the 10th Battery C.F.A. which was in position near Vimy, was heavily shelled for two hours. The communications of the Bde Hdqrs, including those to the Infantry, passed through the Battery Signalling Office and were connected to a buried system at a test box 50 yards in front of the guns. During the shelling of the Bty the lines to this Test Box were cut seven times. On each occasion this N.C.O. went through the shelling, to repair them, and, as a result the Bde Communications were maintained. His devotion to duty and resource have been conspicuous.’

With copied citation.