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Auction: 24002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 230

A Great War D.C.M. trio awarded to Lance Sergeant E. C. Harvey, 5th Royal Berkshire Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (45671 Pte (A.Cpl) E.C. Harvey. 5/R Berks:R.); British War and Victory Medals (25219 Cpl.E.C.Harvey. Hamps.R.), contact marks, polished, nearly very fine to very fine (3)

D.C.M. London Gazette 16 January 1919:

'For gallantry on the morning of 22nd August, 1918, near Meaulte. The platoon was held up by a machine gun. This man immediately rushed forward at great risk and shot the man at the gun, whereupon the remainder of the team surrendered. On 26th August, east of Carnoy, the platoon was in an isolated position. He gathered the platoon together and organised them for defence, then set out to find the remainder of the company despite the heavy machine-gun fire, and reported his whereabouts and strength and returned to his men.'

Ethelbert Claude Harvey was born in 1885 at the 72nd Garrison Station Hospital in Portsea, son of Sergeant Alfred George Harvey who served in the Army Hospital Corps. Harvey served on the Western Front in 1915 with the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment before transferring to the 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1918.

During the second phase of the final Allied offensive in August 1918, they captured the village of Meaulte on the 22nd and secured a position along the Bray-Albert Road to the southeast. A few days later, they advanced east and attacked the village of Carnoy, successfully reaching the German trenches beyond Carnoy; sold together with copied research and the recipient's miniature medals, mounted ordinary style as worn.

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£750

Starting price
£480