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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 498

Four: Captain G. R. McCormick, Royal Tank Regiment, late 24th Canadian Infantry

1914-15 Star (65668 Pte G. R. McCormick. 24/Can:Inf); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. G. R. McCormick); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Capt. G. R. McCormick. R. Tank. C.), some deliberate scratching across naming details on the 1914-15 Star, otherwise good very fine overall (4)

George Rutherford McCormick was born at Hastings, Sussex on 4 March 1891 and was one of five sons of Mr. and Mrs. George McCormick of Quarry Road, Hastings, all of whom served at the Front. McCormick was a bank clerk before he enlisted at Montreal, Canada on 23 October 1914. Promoted to Corporal on 15 December 1914 and to Sergeant on 13 January 1915, he reverted back to Private at his own request on 19 January 1915. McCormick arrived back in England on 20 May 1915 and entered the war in France on 15 September 1915. He joined the No. 5 Officer Cadet Company at Trinity College, Cambridge on 7 August 1916 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant into the Royal Munster Fusiliers on 1 December 1916.

McCormick returned to France and Belgium serving from 21 August 1917 until 11 November 1918. He was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant on 2 June 1918, to Acting Captain on 18 June 1919, and then to Lieutenant with the Royal Tank Corps on 2 April 1919. His M.I.C. notes that he served with the 14th Tank Battalion, going on to say that the Officer of No. 11 Armoured Cavalry Company Tank Corps based at Kirkee forwarded the roll for those entitled to medals in 1922 - McCormick however received his medals on 1 August 1929. He served with the 7th Armoured Car Company on the North West Frontier as part of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Tank Corps.

Placed on the Retired List having attained the age for retirement, McCormick received retired pay from 4 March 1936 (London Gazette 3 March 1936, refers). He was promoted Captain Royal Tank Corps Reserve of Officers on 4 March 1936 with seniority on 2 August 1929 (London Gazette 3 March 1936, refers), and Brevet Major Royal Tank Regiment on 1 September 1939 (London Gazette 22 December 1939, refers). McCormick at some point transferred to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and ceased to belong to the Reserve of Officers having reached the age limit on 30 January 1945 and retained the Honorary Rank of Major (London Gazette 30 January 1945). He later died on 28 June 1982 at his home on 82 Church Street, Boughton Monchelsea, Maidstone, Kent.

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