Description
Distinguished Conduct Medal, GV, Sergt A.J.H. Lord, 6th Dragoon Guards, Killed in Action as 2nd Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment.
Only 9 D.C.M.s awarded to the 6th D.G. during WW1. Announced in the London Gazette, 11th March 1916, the citation:
“For most conspicuous gallantry. His regiment being in the reserve trenches, Sergeant Lord went twice to the front line trenches under a very heavy shell and rifle fire, exhibiting great courage and coolness, and being wounded twice whilst in performance of his duties.”
Officially impressed: “4910 Sjt. A.J.H. Lord. 6/D. Gds.”
Arthur John Harry Lord was born during 1891 in Marylebone, London. The son of Mrs Nellie Lord of 10 Westmoreland Street, Marylebone and Husband to Hilda Winifred Lord, 76 Martyr’s Fields Road, Canterbury.
First entered into the war in France on 16th August 1914, a Corporal in the 6th Dragoon Guards, part of the very first contingent of Soldiers, the “Old Contemptibles”
He was wounded in action at Epehy on 21st March 1918.
Following his distinguished war service he was killed in action on 18th September 1918 as a 2nd Lieutenant of the 1st/2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment on attachment to the 7th Battalion.
He is buried in the Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery Ref VI G 4.
His commission, Leicester Daily Post, 2nd November 1917:
“LOCAL COMMISSIONS, The following notifications appeared in yesterday’s London Gazette:
Regular Forces; Leicestershire Regiment, Sergeant A.J.H. Lord, from D.G., to be 2nd Lieut for service in the field, 10th October 1917.”
