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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 58

A 1918 Western Front M.C. Group of Five to Lieutenant Hon. D.W.J. North, 19th Hussars, Later Honorary Colonel, 64th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery.
Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. 19-Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Jubilee 1935, nearly extremely fine.
Three: Lieutenant Colonel Hon. W.F.J. North, Later 12th Baron North, late Norfolk Regiment, Raised and Commanded the 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers and Commanded 12th (Field Service) Garrison Battalion, India; Honorary Colonel 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
1914-15 Star (Capt. Norf. R.); British and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lt. Col.), good very fine (8)

M.C. London Gazette 25.4.1918 Lieutenant, Hussars. 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. In the absence of telephone communication, he carried out all the liaison duty. He reconnoitred the front line at great personal risk both by day and night, and his energy and disregard of danger from snipers and shell fire were remarkable. He reconnoitred the safest route for the reliefs, and in conducting the relieving battalion to the front line he was severely wounded. He sent in a precise and most valuable report of the situation.'


Colonel Hon. Dudley William John North, M.C. (1891-1936) eldest son of 12th Baron North, educated at Eton, served in France and Belgium from May 1915 to December 1917 (wounded twice); was appointed Honorary Colonel 64th (7th London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (T.A.).

Lieutenant Colonel William Frederick John North, 12th Baron North (1860-1938), eldest son of the 11th Baron, is noted as a Captain, 3rd Norfolk Regiment, 1887, and the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry, 1892; he served with the 8th Norfolk Regiment in France, 1915, raised and commanded the 26th Royal Fusiliers in France and Belgium until September 1916 as a Major, he was considered too old to command a Battalion in the field, was advanced to Lieutenant Colonel and appointed to command the 12th (Field Service) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry in India until January 1920 (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 4.1.1917). He became 12th Baron North in April 1932.

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