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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 363

A Great War ´French Theatre´ M.C. Group of Three to Lieutenant R.C.R. Shand, Welsh Guards, One of Only Thirty-Five Awarded to the Regiment For the Great War a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved in running script, ´Lt. R.C.R. Shand Welsh Guards 1918´ b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R.C.R. Shand.), the V.M. has been erased, with recipient´s details faintly and neatly re-engraved, very fine, with photographic image of recipient (3) Estimate £ 1,200-1,400 M.C. London Gazette 22.6.1918 2nd Lt. Randolph Charles Reid Shand, Welsh Guards. ´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On going forward to the front line, he found that many men of the gun teams which he was to relieve, and the officer in command, had become casualties owing to the dug-out in which they were fusing shells being blown in. Under heavy fire, he at once collected the remainder of the teams and cleared the dug-out. He then re-organised the teams, got forward a new supply of ammunition, and brought all the guns into action again. He set a splendid example of courage and coolness.´ Lieutenant Randolph Charles Reid Shand, M.C., commissioned Second Lieutenant Welsh Guards, 22.11.1916; served during the Great War with the regiment in the French Theatre of War, 10.2.1917-12.3.1919 and was attached to the 3rd Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, 10.9.1917-18.12.1919; Lieutenant 22.5.1918.

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