MADDISON Ernest John Cecil Lieut

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Surname: MADDISON;

Forename(s): Ernest John Cecil;

Initials: EJC;

Rank: Lieut;

Born in: Shetley Bridge;

Resided in: Shetley, Taw Law, Co Durham;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 7 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 7 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 25 Bn;

Awarded: MC, MID, MID;

Gallantry Notes: MC: For conspicuous gallantty and devotion to duty when in charge of four guns with a sub section officer. He fought them for two days mon end at long and close range inflicting heavy enemy casualties and supporting infantry retirements until all his guns had been destroyed by shell or machine gun fire and only six men remained. Subsequently he went into action with a tank, controlling a Lewis gun and later assumed command of two guns in another machine gun corps. His fine courage and energy were beyond praise.;

Other Data: b 12/5/1892
mentioned war diary 7/6/1917
See: History of 25 Div - p49
Wounded: see History of 25 Div - p 114
See: History of 25 Div - p 133 and 160 & 248
War Diary 8/5/1918 - award of MC
POW: 10/4/1918 "A" Coy
ICRC Ref: PA25119 & R 53562
repatriated 29/11/1918 (25 Bn)

Lot 960 Date of Auction: 17th September 1999 (DNW)
Sold for £410
Estimate: £300 - £350
A good Great War ‘Battle of Bapaume’ M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant E. J. C. Maddison, 25th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, subsequently a prisoner of war

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Lieut. E.J.C. Maddison, Machine Gun Corps’; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); with card box of issue and a group picture with recipient identified, this taken from a contemporary publication, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-350
Footnote
M.C. London Gazette 26 July 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When in charge of four guns with a Sub. Section officer he fought them for two days on, and at long and close range, inflicting heavy enemy casualties and supporting infantry retirements, until all his guns had been destroyed by shell or machine gun fire and only six men remained. Subsequently he went into action with a tank controlling a Lewis gun and later assumed command of two guns in another machine gun corps. His fine courage and energy were beyond praise.’

Despatches twice London Gazette 9 April 1917 and 7 November 1917.

Lieutenant E. J. C. Maddison was taken prisoner of war on 10 April 1918 whilst serving with the 25th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. He was repatriated on 29 November 1918

Group offered for sale May '17 Reeman, Dansie, Colchester;

Other Notes: MC: LG 26/7/1918
MID: LG 22/5/1917 (dated 9/4/1917) France (Birthday Hons)
MID: LG 21/12/1917 (24/12/1917) (Haig: 26/2/1917-2/9/1917 ,France);

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