A Great War Italy operations M.C. group of three awarded to Captain J. J. G. Hay, The Gordon Highlanders, late Shanghai Volunteer Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine and better (3) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Gordon Highlanders and Associated Units from the Collection of A.J. Henderson.

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M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

James John Gilbert Hay was born at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands in September 1881 and passed an examination for Chemists and Druggists of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in April 1906.

He went to Shanghai shortly after and enrolled in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps in May 1908, being promoted to Corporal in 1911 and to Sergeant later in the same year. In 1913 he was advanced to Colour-Sergeant and in the following year he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Corps.

Hay obtained his discharge from the Shanghai Volunteer Corps in May 1915 and was commissioned into the 3rd Gordons as a 2nd Lieutenant in October of the same year. And on going to France, he was attached to the 2nd Battalion, with whom he went on to win his M.C. for services in Italy in 1918. Sometime thereafter, he is believed to have served in the 2/13th London Regiment.