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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 401

A Great War 1918 Mesopotamia ´Fat-ha Gorge´ Action M.M. Group of Four to Sergeant D.T. Lewis, Machine Gun Corps, Late Royal Field Artillery Military Medal, G.V.R. (91032 Sjt. D.T. Lewis. M.G.C.); 1914-15 Star (540 Dvr. D.T. Lewis. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (540 A. Sjt. D.T. Lewis. R.A.), nearly extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 300-350 M.M. London Gazette 20.8.1919 91032 Sjt. Lewis, D.T., 207th Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Swansea) (Mesopotamia). 91032 Sergeant David Thomas Lewis, M.M., born Swansea, 1891; enlisted as 540 Driver, 1st Welsh (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force), 20.4.1911; served with the British Expeditionary Force in France, and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; discharged on termination of engagement, 27.4.1916; re-enlisted, Machine Gun Corps, 23.10.1916, and served with 207 Company, attached to the 53rd Infantry Battalion, 18th (Indian) Division, in Mesopotamia; promoted Corporal, 17.12.1917; Sergeant, 13.6.1918. Sergeant Lewis won his Military Medal for the Action at Fat-ha Gorge, as part of the forces under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir A.S. Cobbe, V.C., K.C.B., C.S.I., D.S.O., 23-31.10.1918, one of the last actions to be fought by a Turkish Army on the Tigris before their surrender, 30.10.1918, where over 11,000 of the enemy taken prisoner. One of 11 M.M.s awarded to the Machine Gun Corps for the Action at Fat-ha Gorge

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