Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Captain R. S. Johnson, Durham Light Infantry and Indian Army

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt., Durham Light Infantry, Arras April 1917’; 1914 Star (46 Pte., 5/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Lieut. (A. Capt.), 1/150/Infy.) the last with official corrections, otherwise very fine (5) £550-650

M.C. London Gazette 18 July 1917: ‘2nd Lieut. (acting Captain) Reginald Sidney Johnson, Durham Light Infantry. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When in command of a small party during the advance, although wounded in the ankle, he took command of men of several battalions, and frustrated all the enemy efforts to cut the party off. He showed a fine example throughout.’