Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Gunner W. L. Gale, South Midland (Warwickshire) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (Territorial Force), late Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (314592 Gnr: W. L. Gale. 1/1 War: Hy: By: R.G.A.- T.F.); 1914-15 Star (37 Pte. W. L. Gale. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (37 Pte. W. L. Gale. R.A.M.C.) very fine (4) £600-£800

D.C.M. London Gazette 4 March 1918:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in rescuing a gunner who had had his arm blown off, fetching a stretcher and carrying him into a small iron shelter where he and a comrade remained with him keeping pressure on the artery, as it was impossible to apply a tourniquet. The whole of the time the shelling was most intense.’

William Leonard Gale attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps in Birmingham and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 April 1915. He subsequently transferred to the South Midland (Warwickshire) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (Territorial Force), and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

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