Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry

A Great War ‘Western Front 1918’ D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Company Sergeant-Major G. D. Young, 6th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, later a Captain in Swansea Home Guard Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (265253 C.S. Mjr. G. Young. 6/Welsh R.); 1914 Star (1098 L. Sjt. D. Young. 1/6 Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (1098 W.O. Cl. 2. G. D. Young. Welsh R.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (265253 C.S. Mjr. G. D. Young. 6/Welsh R.) mounted as worn, contact wear and polished, otherwise nearly very fine or better (7) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919; citation published 11 March 1920: ‘He especially distinguished himself when his company was wiring the sunken road east of Pontruet in October, 1918, where he was put in charge of a section of front, setting a magnificent example to all ranks when under heavy machine-gun fire.’ George Dowe Young was a native of Swansea and a pre-war territorial in the Welsh Regiment, and otherwise employed as an ‘engine driver (Portable)’. He proceeded to France with the 1/6th Battalion on 29 October 1914, but was ineligible for the 1914 Clasp. He won his D.C.M. for good work when employed on the wiring of the front line posts held by 3rd Infantry Brigade at Pontruet on the night of 30 October 1918 (Battalion War Diary refers). His T.F.E.M. was announced in Army Order 380 of October 1919. C.S.M. Young re-enlisted in 6th Welsh Regiment (TA) on 9 April 1921. He was called-up in 1939 but was released in 1940 to help form the Home Guard in Swansea, ending the war in the rank of Major. Sold with 3 photographs including a group photograph of Major Young with other Swansea veterans, mostly wearing medals, a Swansea Evening Post news cutting with picture of Major Young and others on the occasion of the disbandment of the 6th Welch Old Comrades Association with the laying up of its standard at the garrison church of Christ Church, original ‘Certificate of Employment During the War’, and copied research including medal cards and Battalion War Diary for September and October 1918.