A good Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Quarter-Master & Captain R. H. Martin, Monmouthshire Regiment, late South Wales Borderers

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Q.M. & Lieut., Mon. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Q.M. & Capt.); Coronation 1911; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3225 C. Sjt., S. Wales Bdrs.), very fine and better (6) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Monmouthshire Regiment formed by Lt. Col. P. A. Blagojevic, O. St. J., T.D..

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M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Mention in despatches London Gazette 1 January 1916.

Richard Henry Martin was appointed a Quarter-Master and Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment in April 1910, following service in the ranks of the South Wales Borderers. Embarked for active service in mid-February 1915, he was one of the lucky few to emerge from the Battalion’s action in Flanders on 8 May, being one of just three officers and 126 other ranks able to answer the roll call the following day - ‘some of these men were absolutely stunned to be alive and gradually the almost shell-shocked reports of the action began to filter back to their homes in Newport and the surrounding areas.’

Martin died at Bath in October 1946.