A MILITARY CROSS GROUP OF FOUR TO A CASUALTY WITH THE ARTILL...

Hammer

£700

A MILITARY CROSS GROUP OF FOUR TO A CASUALTY WITH THE ARTILLERY. A Great War Group of four comprising Military Cross, unnamed as issued, 1914-15 Star named to 2. Lieut A. Sutherland R.F.A, War Medal and Victory Medal to Major A. Sutherland. Anderson Sutherland was born on the 15th December 1893 at Stromness the second son to parents George and Mary of Mount Pleasant, Stronsay. Serving with the Royal Field Artillery 51st Battery, 39th Battalion he was a 2nd Lieutenant from September 1914 and Major from 1917. He was awarded the Military Cross in August 1917 and an entry in the Gazette for the 25th August 1917 reads 'For conspicuous Gallantry and devotion to duty - On two successive days, he displayed the greatest presence of mind and disregard of personal danger, in extinguishing burning ammunition and camouflage, thus saving the explosion of some 600 rounds of Howitzer ammunition. Having served in France and Salonika, often with poor health following enteritis he was fatally wounded on the 1st of November 1918 when supporting operations to cross the Sambrte, he died of wound six days later. He is buried at Premont British Cemetery, Aisne, France, he was 24 years old. One of four sons his brother Douglas served with the Lincolnshire Regiment and was awarded the DSO and bar as well as the MC, a Lincolshire Regimet cap badge is included with this lot.
Sold with copied photographs and typed history.
For his brother Gordon's medals see the following lot. *CR Normal light surface marks. A lot fee of £8 inc. VAT will be charged on top of the hammer price and BP on all lots.