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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 56

A Great War 1918 'Western Front' M.C. Group of Four to Major A. Creery, Royal Garrison Artillery
a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued
b) 1914 Star, with Bar (Lieut: A. Creery. R.G.A.)
c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Major A. Creery.), the Star gilded, good very fine, with the recipient's related miniature awards, and riband bars, all housed in a Hunt & Roskell, London, fitted case; together with a Woolwich v. Sandhurst prize medal, bronze, the reverse engraved 'Putting the Shot R.M.A. Woolwich 1904 A. Creery' (lot)

M.C. London Gazette 3.6.1918 Capt. (A./Maj.) Andrew Creery, R.G.A.
'For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders.'

Major Andrew Creery, M.C., born July 1884; educated at R.M.A. Woolwich; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 29.7.1904; promoted Lieutenant, 29.7.1907; Captain, 30.10.1914; served during the Great War on the Western Front from 17.9.1914; appointed Staff Captain, Royal Artillery, No.3 Group, Heavy Artillery Reserve, British Expeditionary Force, 28.6.1915; Staff Captain, Royal Artillery, Heavy Artillery, Canadian Army Corps, British Armies in France, 8.4.1916; acting Major, 25.9.1916; twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 15.6.1916 and 14.12.1917), and awarded the M.C.; after the Great War appointed Staff Captain, Royal Artillery Irish Command, 21.8.1920; Brigade Major, Western Command, 18.12.1922; promoted Major, 1.12.1923; retired, 23.8.1933.

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