WW1 / WW2 20th London, Lancashire Fusiliers MC, DCM, MID Gro...

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WW1 / WW2 20th London, Lancashire Fusiliers MC, DCM, MID Group of Nine Medals.
Awarded to Major Douglas Louis Waghorn, who was awarded the DCM in 1916 with the 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Bn London Regiment and after being commissioned into the Lancashire Fusiliers was awarded the MC for action 1918. He would rejoin his old regiment and serve in North West Europe during the Second World War. Comprising: Military Cross, Distinguished Conduct Medal, (1880 PTE D/L/ WAGHORN 20/ LOND REGT T.F), 1914/15 Star, (PTE 20- LOND R), British War Medal, Victory Medal, MID Oak Leaf (CAPT), 1939/45 Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, MID Oak Leaf. The group is now mounted for display, but accompanied by an oak glazed frame, which once housed the group ... Also a quantity of detailed research. Military Cross London Gazette 26th July 1918. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When a party of the enemy succeeded in entering a copse, from which the whole of the position could be commanded, he organised a counterattack, under heavy machine-gun and trench mortar fire and drove them out. Six enemy dead and a machine-gun were found in the position Distinguished Conduct Medal London Gazette 14th January 1916 For conspicuous gallantry. Private Waghorn showed great courage and resource in organising the supply of bombs and assisting his officer when the enemy made a counterattack. Mention in Despatches London Gazette 4th January 1917, 4th April 1946. Major Douglas Louis Waghorn MC., DCM was born in 1896 at Tulse Hill Lambeth London, he volunteered into the 20th London Regiment and landed in France on the 9th March 1915. Following the award of the DCM he was selected for a commission and this was confirmed in the Lancashire Fusiliers on the 4th March 1916. He quickly found himself back in France with his new Regiment as the regimental history notes: A raid, under the command of Second Lieutenant D. L. Waghorn, tried on the night of 9th/10th July (1916) to enter the German lines in order to take prisoners and inflict casualties but with strict orders to avoid losses in view of the weak state of the unit; and, though it was not able to damage the enemy, it was successful in finding out how and in what strength the enemy was holding the remains of the line. In May 1917 he was promoted to Captain now serving with the 10th Bn His action resulting in the award of the Military Cross was again noted in the Regimental History: At 5:30 a.m. on 31 March (1918) the Battalion co-operated in an attack by a Brigade on its left to the extent of making a Chines attack, that is, firing Lewis guns and rifles. During the afternoon of that day an enemy party about thirty strong advanced and entered a copse opposite "A" Company (Captain D. L. Waghorn, DCM) from which the whole of the position was commanded. Waghorn promptly organised a counterattack and, in spite of heavy machine-gun and trench-mortar fire, drove them out; killing six and capturing a machine gun. Captain Waghorn was awarded his Military Cross for this action. Surviving the war he resigned his commission and entered the world of Banking, however at the outbreak of the Second World War he once again volunteered and was granted an Emergency Commission into the Green Howards in August 1942, however he soon transferred to his old Regiment the Lancashire Fusiliers and remained with them through the North West Europe campaign, earning a MID and in April 1945 was granted the Temporary rank of Major. He died at Littlehampton in 1975