A royal visit M.V.O. group of three awarded to Major H. G. Vaux, a long served Military Secretary and A.D.C., late Essex Regiment and Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘909’; British War Medal 1914-20 (Major); Delhi Durbar 1911, generally good very fine (3) £350-400

Henry George Vaux, who was born in January 1883, was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment in 1900 and gazetted to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in 1905. Three years later, however, he commenced his long and successful career as an A.D.C. and Military Secretary, when appointed in the former capacity to the Staff of Lord Carmichael, the Governor of Victoria in 1908.

He subsequently served as an A.D.C. to the Governor of Madras from 1911-12, in which period he was awarded his Delhi Durbar Medal, and to the Governor of Bengal from 1912-14, and during the period 1914-22 he served as a Military Secretary to two more Governors, Lord Carmichael and the Earl of Ronaldshay, being appointed C.I.E. and M.V.O. in 1921, on the occasion of the Prince of Wales’ visit to India. Between then and his retirement in the mid-1930s, Vaux served in a similar capacity to the Earl of Lytton, Sir George Lloyd, Sir Leslie Wilson, Sir Frederick Styles and Lord Bradbourne, and was appointed a Commander of the Belgian Order of the Crown in 1926 and a C.S.I. in the following year.

Vaux, who served as an Assistant Adjutant-General at the War Office 1939-43, retired to Dovercourt, Essex where he died in May 1957.