Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue, extremely fine £360-400

M.C. London Gazette 11 January 1919. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the cover of the porthole of his Tank was shot away an enemy machine gunner began firing into the Tank at very close range. Everyone in the Tank, including himself, was wounded, but eventually, getting a steel helmet over the porthole, he stopped the stream of bullets into the Tank while the crew got out the other side. He was wounded six times in the arm, and when trying to rejoin his men he fell unconscious under the Tank, but was rescued eventually by the infantry. His very gallant and self-sacrificing conduct was a splendid evample’.

Attibuted to 2nd Lieutenant Trevor Thomas, 3rd Light Battalion, Tank Corps. Sold with a handwritten note which accompanied a 3rd Army Routine Orders slip, dated 9 October 1918, informing 2nd Lieutenant Thomas that he had been awarded the M.C.