Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.C.M. group of seven to Serjeant S. Cluer, Royal Sussex Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (200088 Sjt., 4/R. Suss. R.); 1914-15 Star (4-1318 Pte., R. Suss. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1318 Sjt., R. Suss. R.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Sidney Cluer D.C.M.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (200088 Sjt., 4/R. Suss. R.); National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal, 1 clasp, Twenty Years (S. Cluer, D.C.M.), silver, very fine and better (7) £600-700

D.C.M. London Gazette 11 March 1920. ‘He has served with the battalion throughout the war - Gallipoli, Palestine and France. He is very cool in action, and as serjeant in command of stretcher-bearers has displayed marked courage and devotion to duty, particularly at Soissons, 1918.’

Sidney Cluer enlisted in January 1912 and entered the Balkan theatre of war on 8 August 1915 and was discharged on 21 October 1919. Awarded the Efficiency Medal in 1919. Sold with copied m.i.c.