Military Cross, 2nd Lieutenant R P Hallowes VC, MC, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment),...

Military Cross awarded to Second Lieutenant Rupert Hallowes, 4th Battalion The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), 1915. On 19-20 July 1915, during the Battle of Hooge, Hallowes’ unit was serving with the 3rd Division when he was awarded the Military Cross (MC). ‘The London Gazette’ of 6 September 1915 described how: ‘During an enemy attack down a communications trench there was a shortage of bombs. He climbed out of the trench exposing himself to fire at the enemy and hitting several of them. He also assisted in constructing a block, dug out a communications trench under heavy shell fire and rebuilt a parapet that had been blown in. Throughout the night he assisted in keeping touch and supplying bombs’. Two months later Hallowes was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross (VC) following another series of actions at Hooge that occurred between 25 and 30 September 1915. From a medal group including the Victoria Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal 1914-20 and Allied Victory Medal 1914-19.