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Description: | Certificate of commendation (1p) signed by Major General D E Cayley, Officer Commanding the 29th Division, recognising Moffatt for his actions as a Private with the 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment (88th Brigade, 29th Division) on the Western Front on 14 October 1918 when he took a strongly-held house, capturing 30 of the enemy single handed, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Together with a copy of “The Great War, I Was There, Part 44”, a letter from Hancocks Jewellers authenticating the VC medal (11 April 1988, 1p), a photocopy of his obituary in “The Times” (January 1946, 1p) and photocopies from unit histories (5pp) and “The Victor” (12 May 1973, 2pp) and other published sources describing the action of 14 October 1918.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Moffatt, Martin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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