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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 231

An Immediate 1944 M.M. group of six awarded to Private L. Satti, 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry

Military Medal, G.VI.R. (14218001 Pte. L. F. Satti, H.L.I.), with officially re-impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14218001 Pte. L. Satti, M.M., H.L.I.), good very fine (6)

M.M. London Gazette 1 March 1945. The original recommendation states:

‘On the evening of 12 Oct 44 at Haalderen, Pte Satti was acting as No. 1 of the Bren gun working on the left of a fighting patrol. He carried out his duties in a most determined and courageous manner, taking on the enemy as they disclosed themselves at short range and neutralising a number of positions in turn, killing several of the enemy.

In making a bound forward near the objective he was severely wounded in several places by an A/P mine, but in spite of this and the fact that he was unable to move he continued to fire his Bren whenever the enemy fired from the area being attacked. He would not accept help and had to be carried away forcibly by his Pl Comd when the latter had decided that he must withdraw. His fearless conduct throughout and in particular his splendid example when heavy casualties had been suffered reducing the automatic fire of his platoon to that of his Bren gun alone when he himself was gravely injured is worthy of the highest praise. ‘

Leone Fairovante Satti appears to have been born in 1924 at Glasgow. He was one of ten children of Emilio Giovanni Raffaello Satti, who was born in Barga, near Lucca, Tuscany in 1890. Young Satti served with the 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry during the Second World War and in Palestine and died in Glasgow in 1985.

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