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27 & 28 September 2016

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№ 789

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28 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£1,000

A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Captain V. G. Gilbey, Royal Field Artillery, who won a silver medal for Lacrosse at the 1908 Olympics

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in its case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. V. G. Gilbey), together with a set of related miniature dress medals and the recipient’s embroidered England Team 1912 blazer patch, good very fine (6) £1000-1200

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Vincent Gunton Gilbey was born in Marylebone, London in 1876. Employed by city merchants Quick, Reed & Smith of Fenchurch Street - a photograph of his ‘illustrating the most ancient method of husking coffee, as practised by the natives of Abyssinia’, survives in The National Archives - he otherwise excelled at Lacrosse: in fact he was a silver medallist at the 1908 Olympics.

Appointed Captain & Adjutant of the 3rd Highland (Howitzer) Brigade, R.F.A. in December 1914, he retained the Adjutancy until May 1916 and first went to France in October of the same year. In November 1917, he transferred to the Italian front, where he remained actively employed until returning to France in March 1918. His subsequent award of the M.C. was in respect of his services in 175th Brigade, Ammunition Column, R.F.A.

Gilbey was living at Bracken Hall, Kesgrave, near Ipswich, at the time of applying for his campaign medals.