CAPTAIN GEORGE MALING, RAMC, EARNED HIS VICTORIA CROSS FOR HEROIC ACTION AT FAUQUISSART, FRANCE, IN 1915, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN ACQUIRIED BY THE LORD ASHCROFT VC COLLECTION.
10 October 2023

Medal entitlement of Captain George Maling,
Royal Army Medical Corps

  • Victoria Cross
  • 1914-15 Star
  • British War Medal ( 1914-19 )
  • Victory Medal ( 1914-20 )


The Victoria Cross and WWI campaign medals awarded to Captain George Maling, Royal Army Medical Corps, att'd 12th Bn, The Rifle Brigade, have been acquired privately by the Lord Ashcroft VC Collection.

The George Maling VC group had previously been on loan to the Museum of Military Medicine at Mytchett, Surrey.


For the award of the Victoria Cross

[ London Gazette, 18 November 1915 ], Fauquissart, France, 25 September 1915, T / Lieutenant George Allan Maling, RAMC ( att'd 12th Bn, The Rifle Brigade ).

For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during the heavy fighting near Fauquissart on 25th September 1915.

Lieutenant Maling worked incessantly with untiring energy from 6.15am. on the 25th till 8am. on the 26th, collecting and treating in the open under heavy shell fire more than 300 men.

At about 11am. on the 26th he was flung down and 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 soon afterwards covered him and his instruments with debris, but his high courage and zeal never failed him and he continued his gallant work single-handed.

George Maling was invested with his Victoria Cross by King George V at Buckingham Palace on the 15th January 1916.

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Iain Stewart, 10 October 2023