A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant G. M. Gahagan, Royal Engineers

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. M. Gahagan.); Defence Medal, the first three mounted as worn, the last loose, nearly extremely fine (4) £800-1000

M.C. London Gazette 26 July 1918:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in demolishing railway bridges in face of the enemy and under heavy fire. When the second bridge was fired by electric exploder, only one charge went off. He ran to the bridge, under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, and lit the safety fuse when the enemy were rapidly approaching, thus successfully destroying it. He and his party had been at these bridges, under heavy fire, for the previous fourteen hours.’

Gerald Michael Gahagan was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 30 January 1916 and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 October 1916. In 1924 the address given on his Medal Index Card is ‘Works and Buildings Dept., R.A.F. Ramleh, Palestine’.

Sold together with the recipient’s tunic riband bar; and a portrait photograph of the recipient.