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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 589

(x) A fine Second World War D-Day + 1 immediate M.M. group of five awarded to Private C. H. Moyse, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Medal, G.VI.R. (7387288 Pte. C. H. Moyse, R.A.M.C.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (5)

M.M. London Gazette 31 August 1944. The original recommendation states:

'During the attack on Libuny on the night of 7 June 1944, this soldier was acting as orderly on an ambulance jeep. He went forward repeatedly in this vehicle to collect casualties through the village of Bieville and back, which was being subjected to heavy mortar and shell fire, causing casualties. The village of Bieville was, at the same time, infected by snipers who hit the vehicle several times. His actions were responsible for saving many casualties who might not have otherwise been recovered.'

Cecil Herbert Moyse was born at Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft, on 11 March 1910, and lived with his sister Audrey and parents Herbert and Lucy, at Diamond Terrace in Oulton Broad; the 1911 Census describes his father as 'a journeyman carpenter in building'.

Cecil's gallant exploits on D-Day + 1 were enacted as a member of 223rd Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.; exploits carried out in the face of strong opposition from 21st Panzer Division at Bieville, just five miles from Caen.

He settled in the Norwich area after the war and died in March 1971.


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