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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 44

A Great War 1918 ´St. Quentin´ D.C.M. to Sergeant E. Hines, Royal Field Artillery Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (48251 Sjt. E. Hines. R.F.A.), nearly very fine Estimate £ 400-450 D.C.M. London Gazette 3.6.1919 48251 Sjt. E. Hines, 68th By., 14th Bde., R.F.A. (Rochester). ´For continuous good service and gallantry in action during the period 25th February to 11th November, 1918, and particularly on the following occasion: Near Bellenglise, on 29th September, 1918, the battery position was heavily shelled with high explosives and gas. He removed his gas mask, and for two hours personally checked every setting on his gun. Though gassed he remained at duty all day.´ 48251 Sergeant E. Hines, D.C.M., served during the Great War with the 15th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery in the French Theatre of War from 19.8.1914; transferred as Sergeant to the 68th Battery, 14th Brigade, and awarded the D.C.M. for his gallantry during the Allied attack on the St. Quentin Canal, 29.9-2.10.1918. On the 26th September, the Allied bombardment of the Hindenburg Main System began, which continued for the next three days, and focused on the salient of the St. Quentin canal near Bellenglise. On the 29th September the assault was launched; the canal defences had mostly been destroyed by the heavy artillery, which maintained fire on the canal banks until the last possible moment; and the field artillery barrage was described as one of the finest ever seen. The results of the attack were less than had been hoped, but a on the right a three-mile thrust had been made into the German front, and the greater part of the Hindenburg Main Position and about half of the Hindenburg Support had been captured.

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