Bidspirit auction | Korea Victoria Cross James Carne

Korea Victoria Cross James Carne VC signed D Martin RAF cover biography on back. Typed career details with cover fixed with corner mounts to the page. A4 size overall. Also signed by Rare Battle of Britain pilot Wg Cdr R Dicky Martin DFC AFC. Born: 11 Apr 1906 Falmouth, Cornwall. Family: s of George Newby Carne, wine merchant and Annie Emily Le Poer (née Power); his brother was Capt William Carne CBE RN. Educated: Haileybury Coll; RMC Sandhurst. Married: 1946 Mons, Belgium to Mrs Jean Gibson (née Ferguson), widow of Lt Col J T Gibson (KIA 1944); one step-s. Career: 3 Sept 1925 2Lt Gloucestershire Regt; 1926 posted to Egypt; 1931-36 seconded to KAR, E Africa; 1 Oct 1935 Capt; 18 Aug 1936 returned to Glosters as Adjt 7th Bn; Dec 1938 emb with bn for Burma; May 1940 coy comd in 7th Bn; then Staff College; 3 Sept 1942 Maj; 1942 staff appt Madagascar (MiD); 1943 T/Lt Col; 1943 CO 26th Bn, KAR; 1944 svd Burma (MiD); CO 3rd Bn KAR, Somaliland until KAR disbanded; CO 5th Glosters (TA); 7 Feb 1949 Lt Col; 1949 CO 1st Bn Glosters as part of 29th Inf Bde Gp, Hong Kong; late 1950 29th Bde to Korea under Brig T Brodie; Jan 1951 communist counter-offensive drove UN forces S towards Seoul leading bn almost to Sinanju; 16 Feb 1951 DSO action at attack on Hill 327 SE of Seoul; 22-25 Apr 1951 VC Action on Imjin River, Korea; 19 mths POW at Camp No 2, Pi-Chong-Ni, nr Manchurian border; 15 Oct 1953 arr UK; 1953-57 Comdt Army Apprentices Coll, Chepstow, Mon; 29 Mar 1954 Col; 28 Aug 1956 Hon Col 5th Bn Glosters; 30 Nov 1957 retd; 1960 DL Glos; Freedom of Gloucester and Falmouth; 11 Apr 1964 disch from Res of Offrs. Final rank: Col. Died: 19 Apr 1986 Cheltenham, Glos. Cremated: ashes buried at Cranham Churchyard, Glos; 30 Apr 1986 Memorial Svce presided over by Padre S J Davies who had been POW with Carne. Commemoration: headstone; stone cross he carved for use at prison camp services now in Gloucester Cath; name on Haileybury Coll Memorial and on memorial panel in Chapel and cloister memorial; Memorial Panel, Haileybury Coll Library; oil portraits by Cecil Jameson at IWM London and by F Cadogan Cowper in Offrs' Mess, The Rifles (1st Bn R Glos, Berks and Wilts Regt). Other awards: DSO (1951); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45 with MiD; Korea Medal 1950-53; UN Korea Medal 1950-53; Jubilee Medal 1977; DSC (USA). VC Investiture: 27 Oct 1953 with DSO by Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace. Good condition Est.