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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 59

A 1918 Western Front M.C. Group of Four to Captain F. D. Bazett, Royal Berkshire Regiment.
Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt.); Defence Medal, good very fine or better, together with the related Great War group of three miniature awards, both groups mounted as originally worn. (7)


M.C. London Gazette 26.7.1918 Captain, Royal Berkshire Regiment. 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during recent operations. Under heavy machine-gun barrage he was constantly in the line and reorganised the troops, who had become considerably mixed-up with other units. He set a magnificent example to all around him, and more than once was instrumental in effecting an orderly withdrawal.'


Captain Frank Doveton Bazett, M.C., born 1882, entered the Royal Berkshire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant in 1915 and served with the 3rd Battalion in France from 16.2.1917; received multiple wounds from an accidental bomb explosion September 1916; appointed Intelligence Officer 99th Infantry Brigade 4.8.1918 (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 24.5.1918).


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