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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 354

A most unusual Great War M.M. and Naval Good Shooting Medal group of four awarded to Sergeant H. Lundie, Royal Garrison Artillery, late Royal Navy

Military Medal, G.V.R. (284907 Cpl.-A. Sjt. - H. Lundie. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (SR-9907 Sjt. H. Lundie. R.A.); Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R. (192104 H. Lundie, P.O.2 Cl. H.M.S. Hardy. 1907 12 Pr.Q.F.), light contact marks to last, very fine and better (4)

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Henry Lundie was born on 7 February 1881 at Sculcoates, Yorkshire, the son of William Lundie. A general labourer and paint works boy by trade, he joined the Royal Navy on 7 February 1889 and was posted to Caledonia as Boy 2nd Class on 3 November 1900. Transferred to Agincourt, Hannibal and Ramillies, Lundie was later awarded the Naval Good Shooting Medal in 1907 aboard the destroyer Hardy which was armed with one 12-pounder gun, five 6-pounder guns and two torpedo tubes. He served out his 12-year period of enlistment aboard the cruiser St. George, before being discharged on 7 February 1911.

Lundie served during the Great War with No. 236 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, which was equipped with heavy howitzers capable of firing 290lb shells at two rounds per minute. The Battery had been raised at Cardiff in August 1916 and was largely composed of men from South Wales. It served in France from 29 January 1917 and was employed in destroying enemy artillery and putting destructive fire down on pillbox strongpoints, dumps, stores, roads and railways behind enemy lines. Having returning to civilian life, Lundie died at Holderness, East Yorkshire in October 1972; sold with copied Royal Navy service record, MIC and research.


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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£420