Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Holt, O.B.E., M.C., Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘E. Holt, Oxf. and Bucks Lt. Infty.’, fitted with replacement suspension ring; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. E. Holt, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. Holt); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, nearly very fine (6) £900-1100

O.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1946: ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Holt, M.C., County Army Welfare Officer, Oxfordshire.’

M.C. London Gazette 26 November 1917; details London Gazette 6 April 1918:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He commanded the two leading companies of his battalion with great skill and courage in the attack, and though wounded, remained in the line until the first objectives were consolidated, and then returned and made a detailed report on the situation.’