The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Captain A. S. Drewe, Leicestershire Regiment, one-time attached Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Oct. 1st 1917, Captain A. S. Drewe, The Leicestershire Regt.’; 1914-15 Star (Capt., Leic. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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M.C. London Gazette 19 November 1917. Citation published 22 March 1918:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When his commanding officer was killed during heavy enemy attacks he took command of the Battalion. When his flank was threatened, he organised two counter-attacks and stopped the enemy advance; he established a defensive flank which held up all further enemy attacks.’

Arthur Seymour Drewe, who was born in 1891, first witnessed active service in the Gallipoli theatre of operations in October 1915, on attachment to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. But it was for his gallantry with the 3rd Battalion, Leicestershires during 1917 that he was awarded the M.C. He was placed on the Special Reserve of Officers in April 1919.