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Sold with an original Identity Card for the Italian Front (dated 16.1.1918).
M.C. London Gazette 2.12.1918 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in a raid. He led his Platoon with great coolness and skill through very heavy machine-gun and rifle fire. Though twice wounded, he refused to leave his men until he had successfully withdrawn from a very critical position. He showed marked courage under very difficult circumstances'.
Italian Al Valore Militare London Gazette 11.3.1919.
Italian War Cross London Gazette 29.11.1918.
2nd Lieutenant Keith Sagar Bain, M.C., was born in Scotland in December 1897, educated at Dulwich College and enlisted in the H.A.C. Infantry, aged 16 years, in October 1914. Employed in the U.K. until December 1916, he went on to serve in France from the latter date until February 1917, when he returned home to receive a Commission in the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. Bain was embarked for the Italian Front with the 10th Battalion in November 1917 and won his M.C. on the Asiago Plateau in late August 1918, when he sustained gunshot wounds to the legs, injuries that no doubt contributed to the onset of jaundice in October 1918. Invalided home, he relinquished his Commission in January 1919.
M.C. London Gazette 2.12.1918 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in a raid. He led his Platoon with great coolness and skill through very heavy machine-gun and rifle fire. Though twice wounded, he refused to leave his men until he had successfully withdrawn from a very critical position. He showed marked courage under very difficult circumstances'.
Italian Al Valore Militare London Gazette 11.3.1919.
Italian War Cross London Gazette 29.11.1918.
2nd Lieutenant Keith Sagar Bain, M.C., was born in Scotland in December 1897, educated at Dulwich College and enlisted in the H.A.C. Infantry, aged 16 years, in October 1914. Employed in the U.K. until December 1916, he went on to serve in France from the latter date until February 1917, when he returned home to receive a Commission in the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. Bain was embarked for the Italian Front with the 10th Battalion in November 1917 and won his M.C. on the Asiago Plateau in late August 1918, when he sustained gunshot wounds to the legs, injuries that no doubt contributed to the onset of jaundice in October 1918. Invalided home, he relinquished his Commission in January 1919.