Noyelles-Sur-L'Escaut Communal Cemetery Extension,
near Cambrai
Son of Ernest Francis and Margaret Dyce Messervy
Killed in action, aged 28 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Thursday 10 January 1918
How Major G Messervy Won the Military
Cross. A special supplement of the London Gazette issued
for publication this morning contains a statement of
the services for which the award of decorations was
announced in the Gazette of 26 September 1917. Included
is Captain (acting Major) Gerald Messervy, Royal Field
Artillery, for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
duty, when under heavy shellfire with his Battery he
went into a burning dug-out in which ammunition was
exploding and put out the fire with the assistance of
a Bombardier. By his prompt initiative and coolness
he saved a serious explosion which would have involved
great loss of life as he prevented the fire from spreading
to other shelters and gun pits.
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission Record
