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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 332

The campaign group of three awarded to Captain G. C. Lovett, Royal Marines, who was wounded in action in Gallipoli not long after the landings on ANZAC beach

1914-15 Star (Capt. G. C. Lovett. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. C. Lovett. R.M.), contact marks, sometime lacquered, overall very fine (3)

George Cecil Lovett was born at Scarborough, Yorkshire on 26 March 1889, the son of Eugene and the Reverend George Lovett. Educated at Manchester Grammer School 1902-04 and on the outbreak of the Great War was commissioned into the Royal Marines on 30 November 1914, at H.M.S. Crystal Palace as Transport Officer.

Transferred to Blandford on 20 January 1915 as Supply Train Officer he was advanced Lieutenant on 25 February 1915. Posted to the Royal Naval Division Train with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 he entered the war at Gallipoli with them.

At some stage while there Lovett received a wound to the scalp on 30 April 1915, just five days after the landings at ANZAC beach. Promoted Captain on 30 June 1915 he was transferred to Sidi Beshir Camp in Egypt on 24 April 1915 and from there to England on 13 May 1916. He resigned Commission on 21 August 1916 and settled at Manchester, later moving to Bury Lancashire where he died on 21 August 1963, sold together with copied research.

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