Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C.and ‘North Russia’ Bar group of five awarded to Captain C. G. J. Luck, Royal Engineers, late Seaforth Highlanders

Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, unnamed;1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Sea. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd Class breast badge by Albert Keibel, St. Petersburg, 40 x 40mm., gold and enamel, manufacturer’s mark on reverse, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (5) £2000-2500

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917. ‘Temp. Lt., Sea. Highrs.’

Bar to M.C. London Gazette 22 January 1920. ‘... for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in North Russia conferred by Maj.-Gen. C. C. M. Maynard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., ...’ ‘T./Capt., M.C., R.E.’ ‘For conspicuous good work, from 28th May to 20th Sept., 1919, while in command of all forward reconstruction on the Murman Railway. He has at all times accomplished the tasks allotted to him, often under shell fire. During the advance towards Lijma he was responsible for the construction of several bridges in an exceptionally short time’.

Cecil George John Luck, from Summerland, Magdalen Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, attended the City and Guilds College, 1903-06 and gained an A.M.E.I.C.. During the Great War he received training at the Inns of Court O.T.C. and was commissioned a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders on 6 March 1915. With the Seaforth Highlanders he gained the M.C., served in France and Italy and was wounded. Promoted to Lieutenant in May 1916; on 12 June 1917 he was appointed an Acting Captain at the Pioneer School of Instructors and on 17 January 1918, and Acting Captain in the Royal Engineers. Serving in North Russia during 1919, he was involved in railway construction in the advance to Lijma by Lake Onega, and was awarded a bar to his M.C. and the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd Class. Pre-war he was on the Staff and Resident Engineer of the Angus Works, Canadian Pacific Railway and also with the Grand Trunk Railway. Post-war, he was with the Resident Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Kipawa, Quebec; with the Department of Northern Developement, Ontario - on the Trans Canadian Highway Surveyand was Resident Engineer of Power Developement at Rawdon, Quebec. Sold with copied research and two copied photographs of scenes from Lijma.