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A Great War 'Battle of Cambrai, November 1917' D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private W. G....
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A Great War ‘Battle of Cambrai, November 1917’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private W. G. Waite, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action at Outersteene in August 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (19147 Pte. W. G. Waite. 1/K.O.S.B.); 1914-15 Star (19147 Pte. W. G. Waite. K.O. Sco: Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (19147 Pte. W. G. Waite. K.O. Sco. Bord.) together with Memorial Plaque (William George Waite) in its card envelope with Buckingham Palace enclosure, extremely fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 28 March 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When his company was held up by machine gun fire during an advance he went forward alone, under heavy fire, and put the gun out of action. His prompt and courageous act enabled the advance to continue.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Marcoing, 20 November 1917.’ William George Waite from Islington, London, enlisted on 24 April 1915, and landed in the Balkans on 24 September 1915, presumably as a reinforcement for the Gallipoli campaign where his battalion was serving. Subsequently moving to France, he was awarded the D.C.M. for his actions at Marcoing on 20 November 1917, during the Battle of Cambrai. In writing to his mother and sister, he told them that he got the medal for ‘killing two allemand and pinching their machine gun.’ He was killed in action on 16 August 1918, aged 22, and having no known grave is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Berks Cemetery Extension, south of Ypres on the road to Messines. The battalion War Diary for that date records 3 OR killed in a patrol, and 15 killed and 105 wounded during the capture of Outersteene. The officer commanding his platoon wrote to his mother telling her that Bill was killed at 5.30 a.m. when a shell burst right by him in the trench and ‘killed him instantaneously.’ Sold with original Memorial Scroll (L/Cpl. William George Waite, K.O. Scottish Borderers), a good quantity of photographs and post cards, mostly addressed to his mother, official notice of his death, and various War Office and Imperial War Graves Commission letters, together with some copied research, including War Diary extracts.
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A Great War ‘Battle of Cambrai, November 1917’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private W. G. Waite, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action at Outersteene in August 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (19147 Pte. W. G. Waite. 1/K.O.S.B.); 1914-15 Star (19147 Pte. W. G. Waite. K.O. Sco: Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (19147 Pte. W. G. Waite. K.O. Sco. Bord.) together with Memorial Plaque (William George Waite) in its card envelope with Buckingham Palace enclosure, extremely fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 28 March 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When his company was held up by machine gun fire during an advance he went forward alone, under heavy fire, and put the gun out of action. His prompt and courageous act enabled the advance to continue.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Marcoing, 20 November 1917.’ William George Waite from Islington, London, enlisted on 24 April 1915, and landed in the Balkans on 24 September 1915, presumably as a reinforcement for the Gallipoli campaign where his battalion was serving. Subsequently moving to France, he was awarded the D.C.M. for his actions at Marcoing on 20 November 1917, during the Battle of Cambrai. In writing to his mother and sister, he told them that he got the medal for ‘killing two allemand and pinching their machine gun.’ He was killed in action on 16 August 1918, aged 22, and having no known grave is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Berks Cemetery Extension, south of Ypres on the road to Messines. The battalion War Diary for that date records 3 OR killed in a patrol, and 15 killed and 105 wounded during the capture of Outersteene. The officer commanding his platoon wrote to his mother telling her that Bill was killed at 5.30 a.m. when a shell burst right by him in the trench and ‘killed him instantaneously.’ Sold with original Memorial Scroll (L/Cpl. William George Waite, K.O. Scottish Borderers), a good quantity of photographs and post cards, mostly addressed to his mother, official notice of his death, and various War Office and Imperial War Graves Commission letters, together with some copied research, including War Diary extracts.
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