Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant C. B. Rawlins, Royal Field Artillery

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Cyril B. Rawlins Royal Field Artillery’; 1914-15 Star (1472 Gnr. C. B. Rawlins, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. C. B. Rawlins) very fine (4) £500-£700

M.C. London Gazette, 11 December 1916:
‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. When a gun emplacement was set on fire he assisted another officer to extinguish the fire, and, though scorched by an enemy shell, continued to do so, remaining under heavy fire on the work until the fire was out.’

Cyril Beaumont Rawlins, a cashier from Leeds, Yorkshire, was born around 1890. He attested into the Royal Field Artillery for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 13 April 1915. Commissioned on 29 November 1915, after the award of the Military Cross he transferred to the Corps of Military Accounts, and continued to serve post-War, being advanced Captain.

Sold with copied press clippings reporting the award of his M.C. in The Yorkshire Post, and copied research.