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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 553

(x) A fine Battle of Frezenberg Ridge 1915 D.C.M. awarded to Private J. Logue, Northumberland Fusiliers, he would be tragically killed in action at the Battle of Bellewaarde just 16 days later

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (3245 Pte. J. Logue. 2/North'ld Fus:), traces of lacquer, very fine

D.C.M. London Gazette 5 August 1915:

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on the 8th May 1915, at Ypres, when he went from his trench to a support trench, 40 yards in the rear, over open ground and under a very heavy fire, borrowed a machine gun from another Regiment, and took it back to his trench.'

James Logue was born in 1893, native of Limavady, County Londonderry. A trainee railway appliance engineer, he moved with his parents Pollokshaws, Glasgow, and the 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers in 1912 (Londonderry Sentinel, 19 August 1915, refers). Logue served in France from 16 January 1915, and was quickly engaged in the Second Battle of Ypres in that April. He distinguished himself at Frezenburg Ridge on 8 May 1915, a day on which his brother was wounded in the leg whilst serving in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Journey's end would come just a few short days later, when the 2nd Battalion was engaged at the Battle of Bellewaarde on 24 May 1915. Logue is commemorated upon the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and the Pollokshaws Memorial, Glasgow.

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