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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 375

Family Group:
The Victory Medal to Sergeant F.E. Stubbs, Lancashire Fusiliers, Awarded a Posthumous Victoria Cross For the 'Lancashire Landings' at Gallipoli, 25.4.1915, One of the Regiment's Famous 'Six V.C.s Before Breakfast'
Victory Medal (1506 Sjt. F.E. Stubbs. Lan. Fus.), nearly very fine

Victory Medal (L-41401 Sjt. J.E. Stubbs. R.A.), very fine (2)

V.C. London Gazette 15.3.1917 No. 1506 Sjt. Frank Edward Stubbs, 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (since died of wounds) [in a joint citation with Captain Richard Raymond Willis, Captain (temporary Major) Cuthbert Bromley (since drowned), No. 1293 Serjeant Alfred Richards, No. 2609 Corporal (now Serjeant) John Grimshaw, and No. 1809 Private William Keneally, all 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers]
'On the 25th April, 1915, headquarters and three companies of the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, in effecting a landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula to the West of Cape Helles, were met by very deadly fire from hidden machine guns, which caused a great number of casualties. The survivors, however, rushed up to and cut the wire entanglements, notwithstanding the terrific fire from the enemy, and after overcoming supreme difficulties, the cliffs were gained and the position maintained.
Amongst the many very gallant officers and men engaged in this most hazardous undertaking, Captains Willis and Bromley, Serjeants Richards and Stubbs, Corporal Grimshaw, and Private Keneally have been selected by their comrades as having performed the most signal acts of bravery and devotion to duty.'

1506 Sergeant Frank Edward Stubbs, V.C., born Kennington, London, March 1888; enlisted as a Boy soldier in London and served with the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers in India and during the Great War at Gallipoli, as part of the Lancashire Landing on 'W' beach, 25.4.1915; died of wounds the same day, the only fatal casualty amongst the Battalion's 6 V.C. recipients, and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Sergeant Stubbs' Victoria Cross was presented to his mother in a private ceremony in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace on the 2nd May 1917, and is now owned by the Regimental Museum.

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