A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant...

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant C. A. Trimm, Royal Field Artillery

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ‘Awarded to Lieut C. A. Trimm R.F.A. Sept. 1917. Presented by King George V. July 31st. 1919.’; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. A. Trimm.); Defence Medal, mounted court-style, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-£800

Footnote
M.C. London Gazette 18 October 1917:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when the battery position was being heavily shelled. The camouflage of two guns caught fire, and this officer at once ran out and, filling buckets from adjacent shell holes, succeeded, in extinguishing the fire, although the sandbags around the guns had caught alight. After he had got under cover he saw that an ammunition dump had been hit and was alight, and he, accompanied by a gunner, again went out to extinguish the fire.’

Charles Algernon Trimm was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery Special Reserve on 23 December 1916 and served with the Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 March 1917, being awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry in September 1917. Promoted Lieutenant on 23 June 1918, he saw further service during the Second World War with the Surrey Army Cadet Force as part of the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers.