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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 14

A Great War 1918 'Western Front' M.C. Group of Four to Lieutenant L.G. Harris, Manchester Regiment
a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued
b) 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. L.G. Harris. Manch. R.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L.G. Harris.), good very fine (4)

M.C. London Gazette 1.2.1919 Lt. Leslie Gordon Harris, 1/7th Bn., T.F., Manch. R., attd. H.Q., 327th Infy. Bde. (Intelligence Officer)
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty as Brigade Intelligence Officer on the night of 24th-26th August, 1918, near Miraumont, and on 2nd September, 1918, near Villers-au-Flos, and on 27th September, 1918, near Havrincourt, when on each occasion he made useful reconnaissances under heavy fire of all kinds, sending back most valuable reports.'

Lieutenant Leslie Gordon Harris, M.C., born Stitchford, Warwickshire, September 1889, and educated at King Edward VI School, Birmingham; enlisted as Private, 2/7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, 16.9.1914; promoted Corporal, 7.11.1914; Sergeant, 10.11.1914; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Manchester Regiment, 16.4.1915, and served with the 7th Battalion in the Gallipoli Theatre of War from May 1915; invalided back home, August 1915; later served as Intelligence Officer on the Western Front.

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