Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Major Sir G. L. L. B. Prescott, Life Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Lt. Sir G. L. L. B. Prescott Bt., 2/L. Gds.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt. Sir G. L. L. B. Prescott. Bart., 2/Life Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Major Sir G. L. L. B. Prescott. Bt.) mounted for display, in leather case by Garrard, London, lid inscribed, ‘Sir George Prescott, Bart’, good very fine and better (4) £600-800

George Lionel Lawson Bagot Prescott was born on 25 October 1875, the eldest son of Sir George Rendlesham Prescott, 4th Baronet and a Lieutenant in the 2nd Life Guards. Educated at Wellington College, he succeeded to the title as 5th Baronet in 1894. He was commissioned into the Militia - the 4th Battalion Cameronians, in 1895 and was commissioned into the 2nd Life Guards in 1898. With the Life Guards he served in the Boer War. In 1907 he was promoted to Captain and retired from the Army in 1908. With the onset of war, he returned to the 2nd Life Guards and saw service with the British Expeditionary Force in 1914. He later served as Military Secretary and A.D.C. to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1916. In 1919 he served with the North Russian Expeditionary Force. He died in 1942 and was succeeded by his brother - Sir Charles William Beeston Prescott as the 6th Baronet. The title became extinct in 1959. Sold with copied research.