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A WWI Military Cross pair to Second Lieutenant Gilbert Hart, 173rd (Tunnelling) Company Royal Engineers, comprising George V OBE (Military) maker Garrad & Co, London 1919 and Military Cross: together with a letter from the City Surveyors Office, Town Hall Manchester.'Dear Mr Hart. I was very pleased to receive, this morning, your letter of the 17th instant, informing me that you had been awarded the Military Cross. I congratulate you upon the honour, which has been conferred upon you , and I wish you every success. Yours faithfully J deLauncey Meade. City Surveyor.'framed and mounted together with brass 'RE' shoulder badges and a gilt and enamel Royal Engineers lapel badge in a glazed display case and a folio of related research material including a Town Council missive 'Resolved, That this committee desire to place on record the pleasure with which they have learnt of the distinguished service rendered by Lieutenant Hart in France, and to convey to him their congratulations of the well deserved honour of the Military Cross which has been bestowed upon him by his Majesty...'