Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘German Spring offensive 1918’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain J. K. Podd, 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment, late 28th London Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse neatly engraved in script ‘Capt. J. K. Podd 2nd West Yorkshire Regt March 1918’; 1914-15 Star (2611. Pte. J. K. Podd. 28-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. K. Podd.) good very fine (4) £800-£1,000

M.C. London Gazette 26 July 1918:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. After the battalion had launched a counter-attack he pushed forward to a very advanced position and sent back excellent reports containing most valuable information, which he could only get at considerable risk. Later, he displayed great courage and resource in reforming troops who had been driven back and re-establishing a line. In these operations he was wounded.’

Jack Kenneth Podd attested for the 28th London Regiment on 8 September 1914, and served in France from 22 January 1915. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant into the 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment on 28 August 1915. Wounded at Ovillers, Somme, on 1 July 1916, by a gunshot in the right shoulder, he was evacuated to England on 8 July, the bullet having been removed at Le Touquet. He returned to France in July 1917 where he was wounded again on 28 March 1918, by a H.E. shell, during the 2nd West Yorkshire’s counter-attack on the enemy bridge-head at Eterpigny, his gallantry on this occasion being recognised with the award of an Military Cross.

Sold with copied attestation papers and medical reports.