A Collection of Medals to the Royal Army Pay Corps

A Great War ‘Egypt operations’ O.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. Morland, Army Pay Department, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E., (Military) Officer’s 1st type, breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, top lugs removed from CC clasp, with the date clasp block loose on riband (Capt. A. Morland, A.P.D.) engraved naming; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. A. Morland.) mounted court-style for display, good very fine (4) £300-£400

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O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazettes 21 July 1917 (Salonika) and 5 June 1919 (Egypt).

Algernon Morland was born in Dinder, Somerset, on 24 November 1871 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on 19 July 1893. He was promoted Lieutenant on 24 March 1897, before transferring to the Army Pay Department as a Captain and Paymaster on 28 January 1899. He served with the Army Pay Department in South Africa during the Boer War, and was promoted Major on 23 January 1910. He saw active service during the Great War as Chief Paymaster, Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and the islands of the Aegean Sea from 20 June 1916 to 1 September 1917, and was Mentioned in Despatches for his services in Salonika. Proceeding to Egypt for service with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force on 28 August 1918, he was again Mentioned in Despatches and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Placed on Retired Pay with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 May 1922, he died in Kew, London, on 2 November 1947.

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