LORD ROBERTS MEMORIAL FUND LABEL STAMP LT MALING RAMC VICTORIA CROSS VC WINNER

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BRITISH ARMY PAYPAL ONLY PLEASE.LT MALLING VCLORD ROBERTS MEMORIAL FUND STAMP LABEL FROM WORLD WAR 1MEASURES APPROX 6 X 4 CM.RARE ITEM. EXCELLENT CONDITION. Captain George Allan Maling VC (6 October 1888 – 9 July 1929) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Part of the Maling pottery family, Maling was born in Bishopwearmouth , County Durham , the son of Edwin Allan Maling (1838–1920), a general practitioner , and his wife, Maria Jane, née Hartley (1847–1932). He was also a maternal cousin of Sir Henry Havelock .Maling was a 26 year old, Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps , attached to the 12th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.On 25 September 1915 near Fauquissart, France Lieutenant Maling worked for over 24 hours with untiring energy, collecting and treating in the open, under heavy shell fire, more than 300 men. During the morning of the 25th he was temporarily stunned by the bursting of a large high explosive shell which wounded his only assistant and killed several of his patients. A second shell covered him and his instruments with debris, but he continued his gallant work single-handed.Maling's Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum (Aldershot, England) . [edit ] Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment The Life Guards The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) at the request of HM The Queen , The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals 'united', rather than amalgamated, so that they could retain their separate regimental identities [edit ] Royal Armoured Corps [edit ] Heavy Cavalry 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) The Royal Dragoon Guards formed by the amalgamation of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards [edit ] Light Cavalry The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) formed by the amalgamation of The Queen's Own Hussars and The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) The King's Royal Hussars formed by the amalgamation of The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) and 14th/20th King's Hussars The Light Dragoons formed by the amalgamation of 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars The Queen's Royal Lancers formed by the amalgamation of 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers and 17th/21st Lancers [edit ] The Royal Tank Regiment 1st Royal Tank Regiment amalgamated with 4th Royal Tank Regiment without loss of title 2nd Royal Tank Regiment amalgamated with 3rd Royal Tank Regiment without loss of title [edit ] Infantry The infantry in 1994 was divided into six divisions for administrative purposes: Household Division : Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards. Scottish Division : Royal Scots, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Royal Highland Fusiliers, Black Watch, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons). Queen's Division : Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Royal Anglian Regiment. King's Division : Green Howards, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, Queen's Lancashire Regiment, King's Own Royal Border Regiment, King's Regiment. Prince of Wales's Division : Cheshire Regiment, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Royal Regiment of Wales, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, Staffordshire Regiment. Light Division : Light Infantry, Royal Green Jackets. [edit ] Foot Guards Grenadier Guards (one battalion) Coldstream Guards (one battalion) Scots Guards (one battalion) Irish Guards (one battalion) Welsh Guards (one batta... read more

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