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Auction: 21101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction No. 2 - including Masonic Jewels
Lot: 6

A Great War Italy operations M.C. awarded to Lieutenant C. W. Buckwell, West Yorkshire Regiment, late Able Seaman, Royal Naval Division

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse contemporarily engraved 'Lt. Charles. W. Buckwell. West Yorkshire Regt. June 1919.', good very fine, in its case of issue

M.C. London Gazette 30 May 1919.

Charles William Henry Gye Buckwell was recorded as a 'Consular' birth in Milan on 2 October 1896, the son of Edwin Charles and Candida Narduzzi. By the outbreak of the Great War, he was a student Naval Engineer upon his enlistment in the Royal Naval Division on 10 August 1915. Having been commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment, he won his Military Cross for operations in Italy.

Returning to the fold during the Second World War, he was demobilised from the Intelligence Corps in the rank of Major on 29 April 1947. Buckwell died in Zimbabwe in March 1976; sold together with handwritten note of the descendent of our vendor, who lived in Zimbabwe.

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£280