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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 422

A Western Front M.C. Group of Nine to Lieutenant Colonel V.A.C. Clery, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914 Star, with Bar [loose] (Lieut. V.A.C. Clery. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Major V.A.C. Clery); India General Service 1936-39, one clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Lt. Col. V.A.C. Clery. M.C. R.E.); Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, lacquered, backstraps removed for mounting purposes, good very fine or better, mounted court style as originally worn, with related group of nine miniature awards (18) Estimate £ 550-650 M.C. London Gazette 3.7.1915 Lieutenant Vyvian Augustine Cairns Clery, 4th Signal Company, Royal Engineers ´For great gallantry in personally superintending the laying of the telephone lines every night over a large area of country which was continually shelled. It was due to his personal exertions and example during the period of 27th April to 3rd May, 1915, that the communications with the Brigade were kept up so well.´ M.I.D. London Gazette 17.2.1915 Lieutenant Colonel Vyvian Augustine Cairns Clery M.C., born 1891; joined Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers, 20.7.1911; Lieutenant 31.7.1913; served in the Great War on the Western Front 24.8.1914 - 1.9.1915 and February 1916 - 1.8.1917 (Wounded; Mentioned in Despatches); Captain 26.6.1917; Specially Employed at the War Office 14.11.1918 - 12.5.1919; Staff Captain Rhine Army, 13.5.1919 - 11.7.1922; Major 24.9.1926; Lieutenant Colonel 24.9.1934; Commander Royal Engineers India, 15.10.1934; Reserve of Officers Royal Engineers, Constructional and General Engineering Branch 24.9.1938.

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