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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 463

Northamptonshire Regiment

A Great War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Acting Company Sergeant-Major H. Letts, 1/4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, a resourceful Platoon Commander - and a veteran of the Second and Third Battles of Gaza - who won a regimentally unique award for his gallantry in Egypt

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (201197 Sjt. H. Letts, 1/4 North'n. R.); British War and Victory Medals (201197 A.C.M. Sjt. H. Letts, North'n. R), mounted as worn from frayed ribands, very fine or better (3)

D.C.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919; citation published 3 September 1919:

'For continuous good work as Platoon Commander. He has taken his platoon on several patrols and shown great gallantry, skill and resource.'

Harold Letts first entered a theatre of war in 1916, as a soldier in the 1/4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, a component of 164th Infantry Brigade. His gallant deeds in Egypt aside, he would have been present in the Second and Third Battles of Gaza in April and November 1917.


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