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Online GrahamSimons

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Possible MC
« on: Sunday 11 May 25 16:07 BST (UK) »
My cousin has found this.
Looks suspiciously like an MC.
Did these decorations get engraved with the recipient's name?
Not much knowledge about provenance - "in the attic" after many house moves!
Any clues anyone?
Thanks
Graham
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Re: Possible MC
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 11 May 25 17:24 BST (UK) »
The name of the recipient was only engraved on the reverse of the cross from 1938. However I believe all MCs should have the year they were issued engraved or stamped in them.
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Re: Possible MC
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 11 May 25 18:10 BST (UK) »
On digging a bit deeper, I'm not sure that my statement about when the name was first engraved can be true. The example linked to below is from the First World War and is clearly engraved. By the way your medal is from the reign of George V (May 1910 - Jan 1936) so quite possibly from the First World War also.
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Re: Possible MC
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 11 May 25 18:11 BST (UK) »
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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 11 May 25 19:03 BST (UK) »
Thank you all. I think I can deduce who the recipient was, but there's no hope of proving it, I suppose. If I'm right he was KIA before the award was gazetted.
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan
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