Lot 4491

Description

Miniatures, Group of Nine: Distinguished Service Order (GRI); Military Cross (GRI) with first and second award bars; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19 with MID; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation Medal 1937; Territorial Decoration (GVR) with four bars, all GVIR. Swing mounted and stored in a miniature medal case. An original set of medals belonging to Colonel S.J Worsley DSO, MC, TD, extremely fine and rare as such.

Colonel Sidney John Worsley, then as Captain Worsley, was awarded the Military Cross at Ypres in June 1916, a first bar in November 1916 for conspicuous gallantry at Delville Wood, a second bar for conspicuous gallantry on the Somme from April to July 1918 and the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gallantry near Verbrandenmolen on 28/29 September 1918 where he was wounded in the chest. He was also Mentioned in Despatches by Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig in March 1919. Together with then Captain Worsley's own account of the action at Delville Wood; photos; original bestowal document for Coronation Medal.