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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 578

(x) A fine Great War D.C.M. and French Medal of Honour group of five awarded to Acting Sergeant G. H. Unsworth, Royal Engineers

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (397274 Cpl. - A. Sjt. G. H. Unsworth, R.E.); 1914-15 Star (7274 Cpl. G. H. Unsworth, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (7274 Cpl. G. H. Unsworth, R.E.); France, Medal of Honour, silver, with swords, minor edge cut at 5 o'clock on the first, otherwise very fine or better (5)

D.C.M. London Gazette 3 September 1919:

'When in charge of his section, he showed great gallantry on the night of 8-9 August and again, with his officer, on 9-10 August 1918, during the advance near St. Floris, in reconnoitring for a suitable site for infantry bridges across the Lys river, in front of our outposts and under shell fire. He has previously done good work.'

George Henry Unsworth - a native of Newtown, Powys and possibly a member of the pre-war Royal Monmouthshire, R.E. arrived in Egypt in September 1915, as a Corporal - Acting Sergeant - in the 5th (Royal Anglesey) Field Company, R.E. It was in the same unit that he won his D.C.M. in the advance on St. Floris in August 1918, in addition to a mention in despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1919, refers), and the French Medal of Honour, 2nd class (London Gazette 29 January 1920, refers). He was demobilised in March 1919; sold with copied research.


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