Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain R. A. B. Young, Army Pay Department, late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 1st type; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, S.A. 1901 (Lieut., 1/Rl. Innis. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., A.P.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, together with mounted group of seven miniature medals, commission document as 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (July 1897), certificates for O.B.E., mention in despatches and Coronation medal, and two portrait photographs, good very fine (14) £500-600

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

M.I.D. London Gazette 8 February and 10 September 1901; 21 June 1916.

Present on the Staff at the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 January 1900 and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5 to 7 February 1900 and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights (Queen’s medal 6 clasps). War of 1914-19 (despatches, O.B.E.).