Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1235 x

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£920

A Great War “Hill 60” D.C.M. to Serjeant W. A. Norris, Cheshire Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8475 Sjt., 1/Ches. Regt.) nearly very fine £400-500

D.C.M. London Gazette 5 August 1915. ‘For conspicuous gallantry on the 7th May, 1915, near “Hill 60”, when he voluntarily left a trench, crawled over an open space under an accurate fire from the enemy, and dragged in a wounded man. Later in the day he gallantly went out again, and brought in a wounded officer, in spite of fire from numerous snipers’.