Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘East Africa’ M.C. group of five to Lieutenant W. G. Goldsack, Machine Gun Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘W. G. Goldsack, 1919’; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Territorial War Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut., M.G.C.); War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a set of miniature dress medals of the first four, good very fine and better (9) £700-900

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919; ‘T./ Lt. William George Goldsack, M.G.C. (Mot.), attd. 11th L. Arm. Mot. Bty.’

Lieutenant William George Goldsack, Machine Gun Corps, served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, May 1917 to October 1918, serving in British, German and Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, 2 February 1916 to April 1917 (War Services of Officers of the Army 1920 refers). He attained the rank of Lieutenant on 1 March 1917. Only 34 Territorial War Medals to officers of the M.G.C.