Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A fine Great War D.C.M., M.M. and Bar group of five awarded to Corporal S. C. Ford, 280 (London Brigade) Royal Field Artillery (T.F.)

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (940240 Cpl. S. C. Ford. D.280/Lond: Bde: R.F.A.-T.F.); Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (944 A.Bmbr: S. C. Ford. 283/Bde: R.F.A.-T.F.); 1914-15 Star (944. Gnr. S. C. Ford, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (944 Cpl. S. C. Ford. R.A.) together with Silver War Badge, No. ‘B37411’, toned, extremely fine (6)
£2600-3000

D.C.M. London Gazette 6 February 1918:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the battery was heavily shelled and the position had to be evacuated he returned with twenty others and carried away a wounded man, while two ammunition dumps close by were exploding. He set a splendid example of courage in leaving a place of safety to rescue the wounded man.’

M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 20 July 1917.

Corporal Ford features in The Dagger journal which gives a portrait of him and a brief account of his three awards thus:

‘Carried despatches through a barrage on the Somme. In the first Battle of ARRAS he showed great bravery during an air raid, when 21 horses were hit. At YPRES, in 1917, he rescued a wounded man from a burning gun-pit full of exploding ammunition, all the guns having been destroyed.’

Sidney Clarence Ford was born on 26 January 1895, in the Parish of Deptford, London, and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Lewisham on 9 August 1914. He served in France from 4 October 1915 and was discharged due to wounds on 6 November 1918. He died on 28 December 1968.

Sold with original portrait photograph in uniform and another of his grave stone; together with various copied testimonials, news cutting, and other copied research.