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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1241

A Superb Great War ´Western Front´ 1918 M.C. and Bar Group of Four to Major W.H. Ferguson, Royal Army Medical Corps, Attached 8th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, the Second Award For the Attack in Front of Le Cateau in October, Where He Selflessly Tended The Casualties Whilst He Himself Was Wounded a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ´Capt. Wm. Haig Ferguson R.A.M.C. M.C. 1918 Bar 1919´, with Second Award Bar b) 1914 Star (W.H. Ferguson, B.R.C.S.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major W.H. Ferguson), very fine or better (4) Estimate £ 1,100-1,300 M.C. London Gazette 16.9.1918 Capt. (A./Maj.) William Haig Ferguson, M.B., R.A.M.C., Spec. Res. ´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the advanced dressing station was completely destroyed by shell fire, and everyone was ordered to take cover, this officer left his dug-out and carried several wounded, unaided, some hundred yards to safety, passing through a zone of gas and heavily shelled area. He did the same thing later on.´ M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 8.3.1919 Attached 8th Bn. Ryl. Berks Regt. ´For marked gallantry and devotion to duty. On 23rd Oct. 1918 during the attack in front of Le Cateau, he was wounded in his leg whilst attending to casualties. In spite of the wound he carried on attending to the wounded under a heavy enemy barrage. Later when his temporary dressing station was blown in by a gas shell, he assisted to extricate the wounded, who were in danger of suffocation.´ Major William Haig Ferguson, M.C., (1891-1928); commissioned Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps, 23.3.1916, after 2 years and 59 days in the Special Reserve; served during the Great War with the R.A.M.C. in the French Theatre of War, 1916-18, including 23.10.1918 (see M.C. Second Award Bar citation) as part of the British Third and Fourth Armies advance of 3-4 miles between Scheldt and Le Cateau on a 20 mile front (invalided; M.I.D. London Gazette 7.10.1918) Captain 3.10.1916; Acting Major 4.1.1918-9.7.1918, served in Egypt 1919-23; Temporary Major 1924-26; Deputy Assistant Director of Pathology, 1924-26.

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