A fine Great War M.C. and ‘Mine Shaft Rescue’ Second Award Bar...
A fine Great War M.C. and ‘Mine Shaft Rescue’ Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Lieutenant C. E. Park, Royal Engineers, late Seaforth Highlanders
Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse of the Cross privately engraved ‘24/1/16 C. E. Park, Lieut. R.E. 4/6/16’, and the reverse of the Bar ‘7th Novr. 1916.’; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. C. E. Park. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. E. Park.) mounted court-style for display, staining to obverse of VM, otherwise very fine and better (4) £1,600-£2,000
Provenance
Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013.
Footnote
M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.
M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 21 December 1916:
‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He, accompanied by a Corporal and a party of men, worked one hour under intense fire and dug out a party of men who had been buried in a mine shaft.’
Charles Enverdale Park was born in Couper Angus on 26 July 1885, the son of James Park of 26 Direlton Gardens, Alloa, and nephew of Provost Anderson of Couper Angus. Originally appointed to a commission in the Seaforth Highlanders in the London Gazette of 23 February 1915, Park served in France from 25 October 1915 and was attached to the Royal Engineers at the time of his first award. Subsequently awarded a Second Award Bar to his M.C. for service during the Battle of the Somme, he survived the attrition of the Western Front and later settled in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1939 he is recorded as a steel, iron and machinery merchant (manager) living at Kenilworth Road; according to The Scotsman newspaper, Park died suddenly at Newcastle upon Tyne on 25 November 1952.
Sold with a Royal Engineers cap badge.
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A fine Great War M.C. and ‘Mine Shaft Rescue’ Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Lieutenant C. E. Park, Royal Engineers, late Seaforth Highlanders
Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse of the Cross privately engraved ‘24/1/16 C. E. Park, Lieut. R.E. 4/6/16’, and the reverse of the Bar ‘7th Novr. 1916.’; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. C. E. Park. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. E. Park.) mounted court-style for display, staining to obverse of VM, otherwise very fine and better (4) £1,600-£2,000
Provenance
Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013.
Footnote
M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.
M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 21 December 1916:
‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He, accompanied by a Corporal and a party of men, worked one hour under intense fire and dug out a party of men who had been buried in a mine shaft.’
Charles Enverdale Park was born in Couper Angus on 26 July 1885, the son of James Park of 26 Direlton Gardens, Alloa, and nephew of Provost Anderson of Couper Angus. Originally appointed to a commission in the Seaforth Highlanders in the London Gazette of 23 February 1915, Park served in France from 25 October 1915 and was attached to the Royal Engineers at the time of his first award. Subsequently awarded a Second Award Bar to his M.C. for service during the Battle of the Somme, he survived the attrition of the Western Front and later settled in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1939 he is recorded as a steel, iron and machinery merchant (manager) living at Kenilworth Road; according to The Scotsman newspaper, Park died suddenly at Newcastle upon Tyne on 25 November 1952.
Sold with a Royal Engineers cap badge.
