Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 937

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£470

Pair: Lieutenant H. G. Elliot, Devonshire Regiment, killed in action, 19 September 1914

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Lieut., Devon Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Devon Rgt.) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £400-500

Henry Grattan Elliot was born on 21 June 1881, the son of Colonel G. A. Elliot of ‘The Marches’, Leatherhead, Surrey and a kinsman of the Earl of Minto. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Devonshire Regiment in 1899. After service in the Boer War he was A.D.C. to Sir O’Moore Greagh, Commander-in-Chief in India, subsequently serving in Crete. As a Captain in the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, he was killed in action, during the battle of the Aisne, on 19 September 1914. He was buried in the Vailly British Cemetery.