Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Captain M. W. G. Corrie, Royal Field Artillery, late Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Lieut., Imp. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., Imp. Yeo.); 1914 Star (Lieut., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.)

Five: attributed to Lieutenant J. M. Corrie, Royal Marines

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued, extremely fine (10) £320-360

M.I.D. London Gazette 11 January 1902.

Malcolm Wynne Gilfillan Corrie served as a Lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War and was mentioned in despatches. He was appointed a Temporary Captain in the R.F.A. on 28 August 1915.

Lieutenant John Malcolm Corrie, Royal Marines, was killed in action whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Barham, 25 November 1941. Aged 21 years, he was the son of Captain M. W. G. Corrie, R.A., and Fanny Olive Laetitia Corrie, of South Brent, Devon. The battleship Barham was on manoeuvres off the coast of Egypt with her sister ships the Queen Elizabeth and Valiant, when she was hit by four torpedoes from a submarine. The ship rolled over on to her side and sank in five minutes, her magazines exploding as she went down. 56 officer, 658 ratings and 134 marines were lost; some 300 officers and men were saved.

See lot 243 for another medal to the ‘Corrie’ family.