Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Lieut. J. F. Ruttledge, 2nd West Yorkshire, Neuve Chapelle, 19th Decr. 1914’, nearly extremely fine £260-300

M.C. London Gazette 16.10.1915. ‘For great coolness and gallantry on 19th December (1914), near Neuve Chapelle. When his Company were moving over open ground under very heavy fire many casualties occurred, and Lieutenant Ruttledge remained to the last helping the wounded away to cover’.

John Forrest Ruttledge was first commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 25.2.1914 and was promoted Lieutenant on 15.11.1914 and Captain on 1.4.1916. He was killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.