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Auction: 4004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 29

An Extremely Rare Western Front D.C.M. M.M. and Two Bars Group of Five to Lance Corporal J.J.E. Bagg, East Surrey Regiment for Gallantry at Thiepval October 1916, Death Valley November 1916, Cherisy May 1917, and Polecapelle October 1917, Distiguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (1565 Pte. J.J.E. Bagg. M.M. 8/E. Surr. R.); Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars (G10-1565 Pte); 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals (Pte. E.Surr.R.), good very fine, mounted as worn, together with riband bar, photographs and contemporary documents including four vellum Commendation Certificates, each dated and signed by Major General Commanding 18 Division, Discharge Certificate and War Badge Certificate (5) Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 D.C.M. London Gazette 28.3.1918 1565 Pte. J.J.E. Bagg, M.M, E. Surr. R. (Tooting) 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in volunteering several times and carrying messages under constant fire' M.M. London Gazette...... M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette.... M.M. Third Award Bar London Gazette... 1565 Lance Corporal John James Ernest Bagg, born 1895, a native of Tooting, London; enlisted New Malden, 7.9.1914; awarded the Military Medal for carrying messages on the night of the 30th Sept-1st Oct 1916 between Thiepval and the Schwaben Redoubt. The exits from Thiepval were being heavily shelled and the night was intensely dark; awarded the Bar to the M.M. for carrying messages up Death Valley to Desire Trench, near Grandcourt in the Ancre Valley, on the 18th and 19th Nov. 1916. Death Valley was so called because it was swept by close range machine gun and rifle fire, and practically everyman who went up or down it on those dates became a casualty. His Second Bar to the M.M. was for carrying messages through heavy shelling and close range machine gun fire at Cherisy near Arras on the 3rd of May 1917. Awarded a Third Bar to M.M. for carrying messages at Poelcappelle, in the Ypres salient, on 12th October 1917, through concentrated shelling. On this occasion the conditions of weather and ground were appalling, it being almost impossible to move over the mud. This award was subsequently changed to a D.C.M; discharged 7.11.1918

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