Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. V. Bicker-Caarten) very fine £80-£100

M.C. London Gazette 15 October 1918:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. While leading his troops in a charge against a railway bridge he came under heavy machine-gun fire. Coolly, and at once, he withdrew his troops and organised a dismounted attack, thus capturing the bridge. This capture enabled the squadron to seize their objective. His gallantry and coolness were of a very high order.’

Vivian Bicker-Caarten was born in 1898 and was educated at Marlborough. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Bedfordshire Yeomanry from the Inns of Court O.T.C. on 26 September 1915, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 July 1917; he is also shown as having served with the 15th Hussars. Promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1917, he was awarded the Military Cross, and relinquished his commission on account of ill-health contracted on active service, on 18 March 1919, and retained the rank of Lieutenant. He died in 1926.

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