Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private A. T. Windebank, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (4895 Pte. A. T. Windebank, 2/Rif. Bde.); 1914 Star, with Mons bar (4895 Pte., 2/Rif. Bde.); British War and Victory Medals (4895 Pte., Rif. Bde.) together with cap badge, contact wear and polishing, therefore good fine and better (4) £350-400

D.C.M. London Gazette 5 August 1915: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and resource on 9th-10th May, 1915, near Rouges Bancs. He carried the first message back from the Battalion to the Brigade Report Centre under a heavy rifle and machine gun fire, returning later under the same fire. He was of the greatest assistance in helping to mount a captured machine gun and in collecting bombs in the German trenches for use against the enemy.’

In the action of Fromelles on 9th-10th may, 1915, the 2nd Battalion suffered total casualties of seventy-seven killed, 340 wounded, and 212 missing. Sold with further research including relevant extracts from The Rifle Brigade Chronicle.