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Auction archive: Lot number 19

By rights I should be dead now. At the

Estimate
£80,000 - £100,000
ca. US$108,351 - US$135,438
Price realised:
£130,000
ca. US$176,070
Auction archive: Lot number 19

By rights I should be dead now. At the

Estimate
£80,000 - £100,000
ca. US$108,351 - US$135,438
Price realised:
£130,000
ca. US$176,070
Beschreibung:

By rights I should be dead now. At the moment I was shot there was blood pouring from my neck and I thought I had about 30 seconds to live. I was hit by a tracer round from about 400 meters, it was a decent shot. Naturally I thought I was going to die because the wound was such a serious one. You aren’t supposed to survive that sort of bullet wound... Once the surgeons at the British base Camp Bastion had operated they demanded my date of birth so they could use the numbers on the lucky dip lottery ticket.” (Extracted from contemporary press interviews) The exceptional Afghanistan 2013 ‘Army Sniper’s’ C.G.C. pair awarded to Lance Corporal of Horse S. G. Moloney, Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), for his gallantry in July 2013 following a night-time helicopter assault operation deep into an insurgent stronghold, where, although himself shot through the neck by an enemy sharpshooter, the force of which threw him off the roof from where he was providing covering sniper fire for his troop, he quickly re-entered the fray following some swift lifesaving medical attention by one of his gallant comrades - Re-establishing himself on the roof he continued to engage and suppress the enemy for a further 90 minutes in temperatures in excess of 40 degrees, until finally against his will, he was extracted by helicopter - His citation stating that ‘without his gallantry and skill in the ruthless suppression of the enemy, it is likely that his troop would have sustained multiple casualties’ - The C.G.C. awarded to Lance Corporal of Horse Simon Moloney was the last such award of the Afghanistan War, the action itself being dramatically recorded by an embedded army photographer, the images of Moloney receiving medical aid before returning to the fight being widely published by the UK press at the time Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, E.II.R., reverse officially inscribed ‘LCOH S G Moloney, RHG/D, 30051089, 2014’; Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (Tpr S G Moloney, RHG/D 30051089) first with original Royal Mint case of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £80000-100000 Footnote The Conspicuous Gallantry Cross was instituted as a result of the 1993 review of the British honours system and is second in seniority only to the Victoria Cross. The C.G.C. was awarded for the first time as a result of the Bosnian War in 1995 and to date 59 such awards have been made, 39 of which were for the war in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal of Horse S. G. Moloney’s C.G.C. is the final such award of the Afghanistan War. C.G.C. London Gazette 21 March 2014. The original recommendation states: ‘During a helicopter assault operation to gather intelligence and to disrupt the enemy, Lance Corporal Moloney’s troop and their Afghan Army partners landed in darkness, deep in an insurgent stronghold. At first light they broke into their target compound and were soon met by sporadic and inaccurate fire which began to harass his troop. Moloney and a machine-gunner were tasked to provide over watch from the domed compound roof to allow the troop to move onto another target. At 06:20 hours, Moloney suffered a gunshot wound to the neck from an enemy sharpshooter, missing his vital arteries and voice box by millimetres, and throwing him off the roof. As the machine-gunner dropped down from the rooftop to aid Moloney, the rate and severity of enemy fire increased as they engaged the troops from three sides, pinning them down. A medic applied first aid to Moloney who cognisant of the danger and the severity of the situation reoccupied his position using his rifle sight to identify and engage enemy positions, immediately bringing the fire support under control in order to suppress them. Shouting through the effects of his throat injury and over the crack of enemy sniper rounds repeatedly, Moloney passed critical target information to win the fire-fight, only breaking contact when ordered to for the medic to check his dressings. Moloney co

Auction archive: Lot number 19
Auction:
Datum:
9 May 2018 - 10 May 2018
Auction house:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
United Kingdom
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
Beschreibung:

By rights I should be dead now. At the moment I was shot there was blood pouring from my neck and I thought I had about 30 seconds to live. I was hit by a tracer round from about 400 meters, it was a decent shot. Naturally I thought I was going to die because the wound was such a serious one. You aren’t supposed to survive that sort of bullet wound... Once the surgeons at the British base Camp Bastion had operated they demanded my date of birth so they could use the numbers on the lucky dip lottery ticket.” (Extracted from contemporary press interviews) The exceptional Afghanistan 2013 ‘Army Sniper’s’ C.G.C. pair awarded to Lance Corporal of Horse S. G. Moloney, Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), for his gallantry in July 2013 following a night-time helicopter assault operation deep into an insurgent stronghold, where, although himself shot through the neck by an enemy sharpshooter, the force of which threw him off the roof from where he was providing covering sniper fire for his troop, he quickly re-entered the fray following some swift lifesaving medical attention by one of his gallant comrades - Re-establishing himself on the roof he continued to engage and suppress the enemy for a further 90 minutes in temperatures in excess of 40 degrees, until finally against his will, he was extracted by helicopter - His citation stating that ‘without his gallantry and skill in the ruthless suppression of the enemy, it is likely that his troop would have sustained multiple casualties’ - The C.G.C. awarded to Lance Corporal of Horse Simon Moloney was the last such award of the Afghanistan War, the action itself being dramatically recorded by an embedded army photographer, the images of Moloney receiving medical aid before returning to the fight being widely published by the UK press at the time Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, E.II.R., reverse officially inscribed ‘LCOH S G Moloney, RHG/D, 30051089, 2014’; Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (Tpr S G Moloney, RHG/D 30051089) first with original Royal Mint case of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £80000-100000 Footnote The Conspicuous Gallantry Cross was instituted as a result of the 1993 review of the British honours system and is second in seniority only to the Victoria Cross. The C.G.C. was awarded for the first time as a result of the Bosnian War in 1995 and to date 59 such awards have been made, 39 of which were for the war in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal of Horse S. G. Moloney’s C.G.C. is the final such award of the Afghanistan War. C.G.C. London Gazette 21 March 2014. The original recommendation states: ‘During a helicopter assault operation to gather intelligence and to disrupt the enemy, Lance Corporal Moloney’s troop and their Afghan Army partners landed in darkness, deep in an insurgent stronghold. At first light they broke into their target compound and were soon met by sporadic and inaccurate fire which began to harass his troop. Moloney and a machine-gunner were tasked to provide over watch from the domed compound roof to allow the troop to move onto another target. At 06:20 hours, Moloney suffered a gunshot wound to the neck from an enemy sharpshooter, missing his vital arteries and voice box by millimetres, and throwing him off the roof. As the machine-gunner dropped down from the rooftop to aid Moloney, the rate and severity of enemy fire increased as they engaged the troops from three sides, pinning them down. A medic applied first aid to Moloney who cognisant of the danger and the severity of the situation reoccupied his position using his rifle sight to identify and engage enemy positions, immediately bringing the fire support under control in order to suppress them. Shouting through the effects of his throat injury and over the crack of enemy sniper rounds repeatedly, Moloney passed critical target information to win the fire-fight, only breaking contact when ordered to for the medic to check his dressings. Moloney co

Auction archive: Lot number 19
Auction:
Datum:
9 May 2018 - 10 May 2018
Auction house:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
United Kingdom
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
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