A Good Great War 1918 Oise-Sambre Canal Crossing Military Cross Medal Group of 4 to an Officer in the Machine Gun Corps who was Commissioned from the 28th London (Artists Rifles) and Finished the War as a Major, Military Cross, GVR, reverse neatly engraved in 3 lines, ‘CAPTAIN F A LOTT, 1ST BN WELCH REGT, ATTD M.G.C.’ on investiture pin in faded case of issue, 1914-15 Star Medal, ‘1778 PTE. F.A. LOTT 28-LOND. R.’, British War and Victory Medal, ‘MAJOR F.A. LOTT’. With some original documentation, Army Order 6th March 1919 listing the Military Cross to Captain Lott, telegram notification of investiture dated 11th March 1919, letter confirming availability to attend investiture on 15th and an investiture ticket for Buckingham Palace on 15th March 1919, this in official envelope.Military Cross, London Gazette 2nd April 1919 – T./Lt. (A./Capt.) Francis Albert Lott, Welsh R., secd. 32nd Bn., M.G. Corps:Citation, London Gazette 10th December 1919 – T./Lt. (A./Capt.)-Francis Albert Lott, Welsh R., secd. 32nd Bn., M.G. Corps. For conspicuous, courage and devotion to duty at the crossing of the Oise-Sambre Canal near Ors on 4th November 1918. He carried out personal- reconnaissance and pushed his guns boldly forward before the attack; during the. attack he opened an intense fire on enemy machine-guns and swept the points from which the bridging parties could .be fired on. This made it. possible for the canal to be bridged very quickly.Francis Albert Lott was born in July 1886 in Hackney, London. By 1911 was residing in Lambeth and was employed as a Bank Clerk. When war broke out, he initially served with the 28th (County of London) Battalion, Artists Rifles, arriving in France on 6th December 1914. He was commissioned into the 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment on 25th May 1915 and was later attached to the 32nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps with whom he won his Military Cross.Post war he continued his work in the banking world and by 1939 he was a Bank Manager living in Sevenoaks. Francis Lott died in Sevenoaks on Christmas day 1953.