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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 429

A Great War ´Western Front´ Casualty M.C. Group of Four to Lieutenant G.M. Gahagan, Royal Engineers a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G.M. Gahagan) c) Defence Medal, extremely fine, together with a portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform and the recipient´s riband bar (4) Estimate £ 600-800 M.C. London Gazette 26.7.1918 T./Lt. Gerald Michael Gahagan, R.E. ´´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in demolishing railway bridges in face of the enemy and under heavy fire. When the second bridge was fired by electric exploder, only one charge went off. He ran to the bridge, under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, and lit the safety fuse when the enemy were rapidly approaching, thus successfully destroying it. He and his party had been at these bridges, under heavy fire, for the previous fourteen hours.´´ Lieutenant Gerald Michael Gahagan, M.C., born January 1891, the son of Major J.J. Gahagan, Royal Engineers, and the grand-son of Sergeant T. Gahagan, Northamptonshire Regiment; served on the Western Front 12.10.1916-7.9.1918 (wounded); Lieutenant, 30.7.1917. See also Lots 427 and 428.

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