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

№ 1168

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£290

An inter-war Military O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain J. D. Cameron, Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, late Royal Army Medical 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; 1914-15 Star (14335 S-Sjt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (14335 S. Sjt., R.A.M.C.) some edge bruising, fine and better (7) £250-300

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1930. ‘Captain James Daniel Cameron, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Staff Quartermaster, Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force’.

Staff Sergeant James Daniel Cameron, Royal Army Medical Corps, entered the Cameroon theatre of war on 6 August 1914. He was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry in May 1916, serving with the West African Frontier Force, and was promoted to Lieutenant in November 1917 and Captain in January 1921. Sold with some copied research.