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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 378

A Scarce Great War 1918 Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Light Armoured Motor Battery M.C. Group of Five to Lieutenant W.G. Goldsack, Machine Gun Corps (Motors), Later Royal Fusiliers, Attached King´s African Rifles Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ´W.G. Goldsack 1919´ in small serif capitals; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W.G. Goldsack.); Territorial Force War Medal (2. Lieut. W.G. Goldsack. M.G.C.); War Medal, nearly extremely fine, together with the four related miniature awards for the Great War; three photographic images of 11 AMB patrol in Mesopotamia, and a copy of the Goldsack Family Tree (5) Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 M.C. London Gazette 3.6.1919 T./Lt. William George Goldsack, M.G.C. (Mot.), attd. 11th L. Arm. Mot. Bty. Lieutenant William George Goldsack, M.C., born Folkstone, Kent, October 1890; Commissioned Second Lieutenant after 3 years and 123 days in the ranks, 23.8.1915; Served in British, German, and Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, and Northern Rhodesia, 2.2.1916-30.4.1917; Promoted Lieutenant, 1.3.1917; Served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 17.5-31.10.1918; Acting Captain, 4.7.1919-26.1.1920; relinquished his commission with the rank of Lieutenant, 30.1.1920; Employed with the King´s African Rifles, served with 11 Armoured Motor Battery in East Africa and Mesopotamia, 19.8.1921; Lieutenant, Royal Fusiliers, 24.8.1939; Acting Captain, 16.2.1940. Lieutenant Goldsack later emigrated to Kenya, and died in the 1950s. One of Approximately 70 Military Crosses to MGC Motors, and one of only 34 Territorial Force War Medals to MGC Officers.

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