Orders, Decorations and Medals

Private F. G. Miles, V.C., Gloucestershire Regiment

A selection of personal items, comprising:- several Victoria Cross Reunion invitations, an invitation from Sir Alfred Bossom, Bt., MP., member of the Council of the Royal Society of St. George, 25th June 1956, a Souvenir Programme for the Victoria Cross Centenary Celebration Tea Party, held at the Lyceum, Strand 28th June 1956, the back signed by several performers including ‘Blanch Robey’, ‘Barbara Kelly’ and ‘Anne Holt’, an original copy of the Review of the Holders of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, 26 June 1956, signed by Queen Elizabeth II, mounted on card, good condition (lot) £40-60

V.C. London Gazette 6 January 1919.

‘On the 23 October 1918 at Bois de L’Eveque, Landrecies, France, when his company was held up by a line of enemy machine guns in a sunken road, Private Miles, alone and on his own initiative went forward under exceptionally heavy fire, located a machine gun, shot the gunner and put the gun out of action. Then seeing another gun near by, he again went forward alone, shot the gunner and captured the team of eight. Finally he stood up and beckoned to his company who, acting on his signals, were able to capture 16 machine guns, one officer and 50 other ranks’ (Ref. The Register of the Victoria Cross).