Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 900

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£1,150

A Great War O.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Major I. S. C. Rose, Grenadier Guards, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Lieut., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., K.R.R.C.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Lieut., King’s Rl. Rif.); 1914 Star with clasp (Lieut., G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these three inscribed (Maj. I. S. C. Rose, Gren Guards); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Ivor Rose), mounted on pad for display, early medals with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (11) £750-850

O.B.E. London Gazette 22 March 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazette Not confirmed.

Ivor Sainte Croix Rose was born on 16 March 1881 and educated at Eton. He was commissioned into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in February 1900 and was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1901. Serving in the Boer War with the 3rd Battalion, he was present at operations in Natal, March-June 1900, including the action at Laing’s Nek, and was in the Transvaal, November 1900-May 1902. He then served in operations in Somaliland, 1902-04, being employed as a Transport Officer to the Somaliland Field Force. In 1907 he was placed on the Reserve. As a Lieutenant in the Special Reserve he was transferred to the Grenadier Guards in August 1908. With the onset of war he ranked as a Temporary Captain in the Grenadier Guards, 16 September-1 November 1914, and was promoted to that rank on 2 November. Serving with the 2nd Battalion, he was wounded in November 1914 during the 1st Battle of Ypres - having to be dug out of a collapsed trench that had been hit by shell-fire. During the battle his ability as a marksman was much appreciated in holding off German snipers. In May 1915, still with the 2nd Battalion, he was serving as Divisional Observation Officer during the Battle of Festubert. He was employed by the Ministry of Munitions in 1917 and retired in 1919. During the Second World War he was re-employed as a Temporary Major with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, receiving the brevet of Major in September 1939.