A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Acting Major R. O. G. Bennett, Canadian Field Artillery, late 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. R. O. G. Bennett, 2/Can. Mtd. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (A. Major R. O. G. Bennett), good very fine (4) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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M.C. London Gazette 18 July 1917:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During an intense bombardment, five officers were buried in a dug-out. He took charge of volunteers and under concentrated fire of heavy guns, rescued three, only desisting on ascertaining that the other two officers were dead.’

Richard Owen Gent Bennett, who was born in Toronto, Ontario, in July 1889, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Victoria, British Columbia, in November 1914.

Embarked for France in September 1915, where he originally served as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, he transferred to the Canadian Field Artillery in early 1916 and won the M.C. for his gallantry with 5th Brigade, C.F.A., in the following year.

Having then attained the acting rank of Major as Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General, attached to Canadian Corps H.Q., in early 1919, Bennett was discharged back in Ottawa that August; sold with copied service record.