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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 58

A Good 1918 Great War 'Western Front' M.C. Group of Three to Lieutenant H.G. Rhodes, Liverpool Regiment
a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued
b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H.G. Rhodes.), virtually Mint state, with the following related items:
- Case of issue for the M.C. and named card boxes of issue for the BWM and VM
- The recipient's related miniature awards and riband bar
- Commission appointing Herbert Gibson Rhodes a Second Lieutenant in the King's (Liverpool Regiment), Territorial Force, dated 27.1.1916
- The recipient's University of Oxford Bachelor of Arts Graduation Certificate, dated 19.11.1921
- The recipient's Law Society Intermediate Examination, dated 13.7.1923, and Final Examination, dated 3.4.1925 Certificates, together with his Honours Examination Certificate, dated March 1925, and other legal certificates
- Chess Amateur Competition Prize Medal, the reverse engraved 'H.G. Rhodes', together with two named Record of Success certificates
- New College Twenty Club Dinner menu card, 13.6.1919, signed by various guests, including the writer H.G. Wells, and the scientist and polymath J.B.S. Haldane; Oxford Old Mancunians Society Dinner menu card, 17.5.1919; and Oxford and Cambridge Universities' Chess Club Jubilee Dinner menu card, 20.3.1926
- Four portrait photographs of the recipient (lot)

M.C. London Gazette 2.12.1918 Lt. Herbert Gibson Rhodes, 2/7th Bn., L'pool R., T.F.
'For conspicuous gallantry in attacking parties of the enemy, who were trying to get machine guns into action. He reached his objective and brought heavy fire to bear on them as they retreated. Though wounded, he would not leave his post until it was securely consolidated. His splendid leadership resulted in the capture of fifty prisoners and twelve machine guns.'

Lieutenant Herbert Gibson Rhodes, M.C., born Southport, Lancashire, February 1896; educated at Manchester Grammar School and New College, Oxford; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, King's (Liverpool Regiment), 27.1.1916, and served during the Great War with the 2/7th Battalion on the Western Front from February 1917; promoted Lieutenant, 28.7.1917.

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