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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 750

A Great War October 1914 Casualty Group of Three to Captain C.G.P. Gilliat, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Who Died of Wounds Received During the Attack with the 1st Battalion on the Village of Meteren India General Service 1908-35, E.VII.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (2nd Lieut. C.G.P. Gilliat. 1st R. War. R.); 1914 Star, with Bar (Lieut: C.G.P. Gilliat. R. War. R.); Victory Medal (Capt. C.G.P. Gilliat.), nearly extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´Cecil Glendower Percival Gilliat´, with original named medal card box of issue and enclosure slip for plaque (3) Estimate £ 400-450 Captain Cecil Glendower Percival Gilliat of Arch Hall, Country Meath, Ireland, born 1884; educated at Cheltenham School; commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 28.11.1905; served with the regiment in operations in the Zekka Khel country, north western frontier of India; Lieutenant 1.4.1909; served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front, and died of wounds, 14.10.1914, as a result of an attack on the village of Meteren the previous day. The 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment had sustained casualties of 42 killed and 85 wounded, with the Regimental War Diary listing a Lieutenant Montgomery (later Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G., G.C.B., D.S.O.) as being wounded in the same action as Gilliat. A brother officer wrote, ´We were attacking a village called Meteren. My company was next to "Glennie´s" when I fell. He saw at once, and ran to me with two of his men, and started bandaging my wound. It was a very plucky thing to do, as I was lying in a very exposed place, and the Germans were firing at me all the time. Glennie left me after he had put the dressing on, and said he would send some men to carry me back, but he was killed himself - shot through the forehead- when he got back to the trench.´ (Bond of Sacrifice refers). He is buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, France and was gazetted Captain posthumously, 29.10.1914. His twin brother was killed in action whilst serving with the Leinster Regiment.

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