Lieut General Sir Philip Neame VC signed RE28c 150 Anniv 15 HQ Sqn RE. 26 Sep 75 BFPS 1398 150 Anniversary 15 HQ ...

Lieut General Sir Philip Neame VC signed RE28c 150 Anniv 15 HQ Sqn RE. 26 Sep 75 BFPS 1398 150 Anniversary 15 HQ Squadron RE, Personally Signed by Lieut General Sir Philip Neame VC KBE CB DSO DL who won his VC ( Victoria Cross) on December 15. When serving with 15 Field Coy RE. Neame was 26 years old when the following deed took place, for which he received the Victoria Cross: On 19 December 1914 at Neuve Chapelle, France, Lieutenant Neame, in the face of very heavy fire, engaged the Germans in a single-handed bombing attack, killing and wounding a number of them. He was able to check the enemy advance for threequarters of an hour and to rescue all the wounded whom it was possible to move. During a minor night trench action on the Western Front in the Neuve Chapelle district five days before Christmas 1914, Neame was leading a party of sappers in action when he was requested by the commanding officer of a battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment to go forward and to strengthen the defences in a recently captured German trench. When he got there he met another commissioned officer who informed him that the Germans were counter-attacking with bombs, that his own bombers had all been wounded and that the bombs that were left would not go off. At this Neame went further up the trench to the contact point to talk to one of the surviving bombers there, and discovered that the problem was that he wasn't able use the bombs because there were no fuzee matches left. Neame, knowing how to technically ignite the grenades without a fuzee match by holding a regular match-head on the grenade's fuse and striking a match box across it, commenced lighting and throwing grenades in this fashion into the German trenches at the two different directions where a German dawn counter-attack was materializing, holding it back whilst under continual return fire for forty-five minutes whilst the West Yorks Regiment evacuated its wounded behind him back towards the original British frontline trench. Neame was promoted to the rank of captain in 1915, and was mentioned in despatches in February 1915, and again in January 1916. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in January 1916. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99