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Auction: 5012 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 535

A Great War M.C. Group of Three to Major D. Scott, Royal Horse Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; British War and Victory Medals (Major D. Scott), light contact marks, edge bruise to BWM, therefore very fine (3) Estimate £ 480-520M.C. London Gazette 16.9.1918 Capt (A/Major) Douglas Scott, Royal Field Artillery. ´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. After the infantry had retired through his line of guns, he withdrew his men to the infantry firing line, and continued to fight with them. It was by his great persistence that two of his own guns and two belonging to another battery were withdrawn by his teams under heavy machine gun fire. His personal courage throughout has set a fine example to his men.´ Major Douglas Scott, M.C., born 1888; Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery, 1908; Lieutenant 21st Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, 1914; Major 1918.

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