Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant C. H. C. Burrows, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (3) £160-200

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 May 1920. ‘... for valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Kurdistan and Persia. Dated 17th January , 1920’. ‘Royal Engineers, attd. S.& M., I.A.’

Charles Henry Claud Burrows was the son of Colonel E. A. Burrows, R.A., C.M.G. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy. Appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, he served with the B.E.F., 1916-18, and with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 1918; retiring in 1920 and living at The Manor House, Long Credon, Thame.

Sold with some copied research.

For his father’s miniature dress medals, see Lot 703.