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Description: | Ts transcript of his gazette (1p) for the award of the Victoria Cross for his actions whilst serving as a Sergeant with the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers (149th Brigade, 50th Division) in France on 18 October 1918, describing how he advanced through an allied barrage and enemy fire, silencing six machine gun positions and capturing over a hundred enemy reinforcements single-handed. Together with his demobilisation certificate; his Mention in Despatches certificate (29 March 1917); a colour certificate from the Comrades of the Great War (12 May 1920); formal invitation to a Royal reception of recipients of VC winners on 26 June 1920; a slip from the compiler of “The Victoria Cross – The Empire’s Roll of Valour” presenting a copy of the book; a menu from the VC dinner of 29 November 1929 signed by Captain R F J Hayward VC and Major Henry Kelly VC and photocopies from a published source describing the battles of the Somme and Le Cateau (1918) (29pp) including an account of Curtis’ actions on 18 October 1918.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Curtis, Horace Augustus | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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