Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War C.B., C.B.E. group of nine awarded to Brigadier-General E. R. O. Ludlow, Royal Army Service Corps

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 1st type neck badge, enamel chipped on lower arm; British South Africa Company’s Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (Captn. E. R. O. Ludlow, A.S. Corps.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (Major E. R. O. Ludlow, A.S.C); 1914 Star, with clasp (Col. E. R. O. Ludlow); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. E. R. O. Ludlow); Coronation 1902, silver; Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s 5th class breast badge, silver, gilt and enamels, generally good very fine (9) £1200-1400

C.B. London Gazette 2 March 1915.

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

Legion of Honour London Gazette 5 November 1920.

M.I.D. London Gazette 8 February and 10 September 1901; 9 December 1914, 18 February 1915, 1 January 1916, and 4 January 1917.

Edmund Ronald Owen Ludlow originally entered the Royal Fusiliers but transferred into the Army Service Corps in 1889. He saw active service in Rhodesia in 1896-96 as officer commanding A.S.C. and was present at the attack on Gadzi’s Kraal at Marandellas (Medal). During the Boer War he was present on the Staff in various operations in Natal, including the actions at Lombard’s Kop and Rietfontein, and subsequently in the Defence of Ladysmith as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, including the action on 6 January 1900, being afterwards invalided home to England (Despatches twice, Medal and Clasp).

He served in France and Flanders during the Great War and was employed by the 1st Cavalry Division as A.A. and Q.M.G. 1914-15, and as D.A. and Q.M.G. of 6th Corps 1915-17 (C.B., C.B.E.). Brigadier-General Ludlow retired in 1919 and died in 1929.