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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 362

A Great War ´Passchendaele 1917´ M.C. Group of Three to Thrice Wounded Captain B.T.M. Hebert, Welsh Guards, One of Only Thirty-Five Awarded to the Regiment For the Great War a) Military Cross, G.V.R, reverse engraved in sans serif capitals ´Capt. B.T. Hebert. 1st Welsh Guards. Flanders. Oct. 1917´ b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. B.T.M. Hebert.), the VM has been erased, with recipient´s details faintly and neatly re-engraved, good very fine or better, with the associated miniature awards, housed in a small Spink & Son, Piccadilly leather box; a Haileybury O.T.C. cap badge; and copy research (lot) Estimate £ 1,200-1,400 M.C. London Gazette 23.4.1918 Lt. Bernard Theodore Martyn Hebert, W. Gds., Spec. Res. ´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in remaining in charge of his platoon, though wounded, superintending the relief, and taking out a wiring party and starting them work. He then returned to company headquarters in a fainting condition.´ Captain Bernard Theodore Martyn Hebert, M.C., commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment, 1.9.1914; transferred Welsh Guards, 28.11.1915; served during the Great War with the regiment in the French Theatre of War, 13.7.1916-15.9.1916, 5.5.1917-15.10.1917 and 10.11.1918-12.3.1919 (wounded three times); Hebert joined No 4 Company, 14.8.1916, and moved with the 1st Battalion to Mericourt, just behind the Somme front line, 25.8.1916; took part and was wounded in operations at Ginchy (10.9.1916), during which operations the Welsh Guards suffered 205 casualties; Lieutenant 5.3.1917; he was also wounded at Passchendaele (10.10.1917, M.C. citation refers), ´Taylor and Hebert were wounded by shell-fire (Hebert while crossing the Broembeek, but led his platoon into line), and Fripp fell on a bayonet in the dark and received a nasty gash´ (Regimental History refers); the 1st Battalion finally withdraw from Ypres, 12.10.1917, having suffered 313 casualties; Acting Captain 12.12.1919-11.4.1919; after the war Hebert was employed as a Master at Haileybury School and was involved in the school´s O.T.C.; ordained 1942, and appointed to a living in Hereford; died 1976.

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