Western Front Military Medal, GVR, awarded to Serjeant D.S. Huskisson, 1st Field Ambulance, South African Army Medical Corps who saw service in France and who was awarded his Military Medal in the London Gazette of 9th July 1917 for his bravery during the attack at Fampaux on 12th April 1917 when he displayed a contempt for danger and organising ability during his excellent work.
Military Medal, GVR, (100 SJT. D.S. HUSKISSON. 1.F.A.S.A.A.M.C.)
Condition: Good Very Fine
D.S. Huskisson was born in Cape Town in 1893, and enlisted at Potchefstroom on 26th August 1915, he saw service as a Serjeant (No. 100) with the 1st Field Ambulance, South African Army Medical Corps initially in Egypt before arriving in France in May 1916. He would be awarded the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 9th July 1917 which covers both the Battle of Arras and Vimy Ridge during April and May 1917.
The History of the First Field Ambulance, South African Medical Corps by Major C.M. Murray, D.S.O. states Huskisson was awarded the Military Medal for his excellent work in which he displayed a contempt for danger and organising ability during the attack at Fampaux on 12th April 1917 where the attack by the Fourth Division was a failure from the start, the German machine guns absolutely stopping the advance. The casualties were heavy and an in addition an intense barrage, almost exclusively 5.9” was put down on the village making the work of collecting the wounded one of great risk.
Huskisson would later transfer to the Royal Flying Corps on 24th November 1917 and would be commissioned as a Second Lieutenant seeing service in the UK
