Lot 738
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A Great War D.C.M. Group of Four to Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant S.W. Mackrill, Royal Artillery, Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (48262 Sjt., R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (48262 Sjt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (48262 B.Q.M. Sjt., R.A.), very fine and better, mounted as worn (4)

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A Great War D.C.M. Group of Four to Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant S.W. Mackrill, Royal Artillery, Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (48262 Sjt., R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (48262 Sjt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (48262 B.Q.M. Sjt., R.A.), very fine and better, mounted as worn (4)
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Lot Essay

D.C.M. London Gazette 17.9.1917 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in proceeding at imminent risk of his life to the rescue of comrades who had been wounded and buried by hostile shell fire in a wrecked shelter. He dressed the wounded under heavy shell fire the whole time, during which he and the men who were helping him in his gallant work improvised a stretcher and got the casualties away from the position'.