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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 9

A Great War 1917 Western Front M.C. Group of Four to Lieutenant C.A. Trimm, Royal Field Artillery a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ´Awarded to Lieut C.A. Trimm R.F.A. Sept. 1917. Presented by King George V. July 31st. 1919.´ b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C.A. Trimm.) c) Defence Medal, extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 600-800 M.C. London Gazette 18.10.1917 2nd Lt. Charles Algernon Trimm, R.F.A., Spec. Res. ´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when the battery position was being heavily shelled. The camouflage of two guns caught fire, and this officer at once ran out and, filling buckets from adjacent shell holes, succeeded, in extinguishing the fire, although the sandbags around the guns had caught alight. After he had got under over he saw that an ammunition dump had been hit and was alight, and he, accompanied by a gunner, again went out to extinguish the fire.´ Lieutenant Charles Algernon Trimm, M.C., Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery Special Reserve, 23.12.1916; served with the Artillery in France from 30.3.1917; awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in September 1917; promoted Lieutenant, 23.6.1918. During the Second World War Lieutenant Trimm served with the Surrey Army Cadet Force as part of the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers.

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