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26 & 27 September 2018

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Lot

№ 22

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26 September 2018

Hammer Price:
£2,600

A Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain J. D. Glegg, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, onetime attached Connaught Rangers

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (2 Lieut. J. D. Glegg, R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. J. D. Glegg); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Belgium, Croix de Guerre 1914-18, mounted as worn, very fine or better (7) £1000-1200

M.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917.

James Dowie Glegg arrived in France on 25 September 1914, while serving as a 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, on attachment to the Connaught Rangers. In addition to his subsequent award of the M.C., he was also mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 5 July 1919, refers) and awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre (Services of Military Officers, 1920, refers).