Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A good Great War, Western Front ‘Langemarck’ August 1917 operations D.C.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant E. Renaut, Essex Regiment, late Norfolk Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (41573 Sjt: E. Renaut. 1/Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (1775 Sjt. E. Renaut. Norf. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (29469 Sjt. E. Renaut. Norf. R.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, medals unmounted, contact wear and polished, therefore generally nearly very fine or better (6) £1,400-£1,800

D.C.M. London Gazette 26 January 1918:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When his company was held up during an attack by machine-gun fire from a blockhouse some 1,500 yards in front he immediately volunteered to attack it and, collecting a party, led them across the open under heavy fire. Owing to his prompt action the blockhouse surrendered, and throughout the whole action he displayed splendid gallantry and leadership.’
Annotated Gazette states: ‘N.W. of Langemarck, 16 August 1917.’

Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 12 July 1918.

Edward Renaut was born in the Parish of Thornham, Norfolk, and enlisted into the Norfolk Regiment (Reserve Battalion) at Gayton, Norfolk, on 11 December 1912, aged 23 years 11 months, a farmer by trade. He served in France and Flanders with the 4th Norfolks and won his D.C.M. whilst attached to the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. He was discharged from the 3rd Norfolks on 26 March 1919.

Sold with 16 pages of copied service papers which state ‘wound in right arm caused by bullet (sniper), Nov. 22nd 1917’, together with copied gazette entries, Essex Regiment War Diary extracts, and Medal Index Card.