Orders, Decorations and Medals

Second Lieutenant G. G. Coury, V.C., South Lancashire Regiment

Art Deco Silver Bowl, the front engraved “Presented to Lt. J (sic). G. Coury, VC., on the occasion of his Marriage by the Officer Patients in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 7th Jany. 1918”, by ‘G.M. Co.’, 150mm. high, 190 mm. dia, 710g., hallmarks for Birmingham 1912, good condition £800-1000

V.C. London Gazette 26 October 1916.

‘On 8 August 1916 near Arrow Head Copse, France, 2Second Lieutenant Coury was in command of two platoons ordered to dig a communication trench, By his fine example and utter contempt of danger he kept up the spirts of his men and completed his task under intense fire. Later when his battalion had suffered severe casualties and the Commanding Officer had been wounded he went out in broad daylight in full view of the enemy, found his Commanding Officer and brought him back to the new advance trench over ground swept by machine gun fire’ (Ref. The Register of the Victoria Cross).