A Gallipoli Distinguished Conduct Medal, GVR 1st type bust awarded to Private C. Bent, 7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers – Territorial Force who landed at Gallipoli on 5th May 1915 and who would later be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in the London Gazette of 21st June 1916 for conspicuous gallantry during the occupation of a crater made by a mine explosion and during a counter-attack carried out later. He would survive the war, and would be disembodied on 8th February 1919.
Distinguished Conduct Medal, GVR 1st type bust; (1374 PTE. C. BENT. 7/LANC.FUS: - T.F.)
Condition: mounted for display, Nearly Extremely Fine
Charles Bent saw service as a Private, later Serjeant (No. 1374, later No. 280078) with the 7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers at Gallipoli from 5th May 1915 and would be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in the London Gazette of 21st June 1916:
‘For conspicuous gallantry during the occupation of a crater made by a mine explosion and during a counter-attack carried out later.’. This award is a Gallipoli award, the 1st/7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers leaving Gallipoli on 27th December 1915 and seeing no further action until August 1916 in Egypt and in line with a number of others in the London Gazette of 21st June 1916 by Howard Williamson.
He would later be disembodied on 8th February 1919.
