Important Hampshire Regiment Victoria Cross Winners Uniform Tunic

Important Hampshire Regiment Victoria Cross Winners Uniform Tunic

The tunic of Captain Montagu Shadworth Seymour Moore VC. who won the highest gallantry medal for action at Ypres September 1917.

This heavy weight material 1917 pattern tunic retains to the left breast the original medal ribbons of the Victoria Cross, British War Medal, Victory Medal, MID Oak Leaf, French Croix de Guerre with Bronze Palm. Also Hampshire regimental buttons and Captain rank stars. The interior with the tailor’s label of Conway Williams of 17 Hanover Street W1 (London) and ink name “M.S.MOORE ESQ V.C. 10.1.21 (10th January 1921) 37th (Hampshire Regiment). The tunic remains in good fresh condition, the buttons have toned and matching.
Collar badge have never been tailored see the last digital image which shows Captain Montagu Shadworth Seymour Moore VC he wears no collar badges.

An exceptional uniform jacket worn by an exceptional man.

VC Citation:

On 20th September 1917 near Tower Hamlets, east of Ypres, Belgium, Second Lieutenant Moore volunteered to make a fresh attack on a final objective and went forward with some 70 men, but they met such heavy opposition that when he arrived at his objective he had only one sergeant and four men. Nothing daunted he at once bombed a large dug-out, taking 28 prisoners, two machine-guns and a light field-gun. Gradually more officers and men arrived, numbering about 60 and he held the post for 36 hours beating off counter-attacks, until his force was reduced to 10 men. He eventually got away his wounded and withdrew under cover of thick mist.

The Victoria Cross presented by King George V at Buckingham Palace 21st November 1917.

Captain Montagu Shadworth Seymour Moore VC volunteered for military service and passed through Sandhurst in 1915. Commissioned into the 3rd Bn Hampshire Regiment he landed in France September 1916. He was wounded in the leg in June 1917, recovering returned to his Battalion winning the VC.

After the presentation he served on home establishment at various training camps and following the German Spring Offensive returned to France. The war over he volunteered to serve with the 2nd Battaion part of 238th Special Brigade, in North Russia, under the command of another VC winner Lieutenant Colonel John Sherwood-Kelly VC. Returning to the UK  he was seconded to the Colonial Office for service in February 1921 and in March 1921 embarked to join the 2nd Battalion, King’s African Rifles, in Tanganyika. In 1926 he retired from the Army with the rank of captain and he went on to work as a ranger and chief game warden in Tanzania and Kenya. He died in Kenya 1966.