Bidspirit auction | Korea Victoria Cross James Carne

Korea Victoria Cross James Carne VC signed D Martin RAF cover biography on back. 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.