A Great War ‘Egypt operations’ C.B.E., D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. V. Bagshawe, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar (incorrect ribbon); 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 3rd Class neck badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, good very fine (6) £1100-1300

C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘... for valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt’.

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1916

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 June 1916, 6 July 1917, 5 June 1919.

Order of the Nile Edinburgh Gazette 16 January 1920.

Herbert Vale Bagshawe was born on 11 August 1874. Commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in September 1902, he attained the rank of Major in September 1914. During the war he was Assistant Director of Medical Services, G.H.Q. Egyptian Expeditionary Force, October 1916. For his many services in the Egyptian theatre of war he was awarded the C.B.E., D.S.O., the Order of the Nile and the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 3 June 1918), and was three times mentioned in despatches. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1924, he was placed on Retired Pay in 1929. Lieutenant-Colonel Bagshawe died on 17 March 1962. Sold with copied research.