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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 563

The Great War Western Front ´Immediate´ M.C. and Bar, the Former Whilst Attached to the Machine Gun Corps for Conspicuous Gallantry in Breaking-up Three Consecutive Attacks and Capturing Three Enemy Machine Guns, Group of Four to Captain A.L. Herridge, Lancashire Fusiliers a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ´Lieut. Alfred Leslie Herridge. 1/6th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers and Machine Gun Corps. 1918.´, with Second Award Bar b) 1914-15 Star (Lieut. A.L. Herridge. Lan. Fus.) c) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A.L. Herridge.), good very fine or better, mounted as originally worn, with the associated miniature awards and riband bar (4) Estimate £ 2,000-2,400 M.C. London Gazette 26.7.1918 Lt. Alfred Leslie Herridge, Lan. Fus., secd. M.G.C. ´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in handling his machine guns with great courage and determination. Under heavy fire and without cover, yet he broke up three attacks and disposed of three enemy machine guns. His quick appreciation of the situation and the information he sent back were invaluable.´ M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 3.6.1918 Lt. Alfred Leslie Herridge, M.C., Lan. Fus., attd. M.G. Corps. Captain Alfred Leslie Herridge, M.C., commissioned Second Lieutenant 6th (Territorial) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, 17.4.1915; served during the Great War in Gallipoli, 4.10.1915 - December 1915; Lieutenant attached Machine Gun Corps Infantry, 1.6.1916; served in the Egyptian Theatre of War, December 1915-18.3.1916; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 19.3.1916-February 1917; served on the Western Front, February 1917-June 1918 (Wounded); Temporary Captain.

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