Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1563

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£110

Pair: Captain M. B. Chater, Royal Engineers, who was mentioned in despatches for his services in the Inland Waterways Transport in East Africa

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D.
oak leaf (Capt.), good very fine (2) £80-100

Maurice Balfour Chater, who was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in August 1916, first entered the East African theatre of war in November 1917, and was mentioned in General Sir J. L. van Deventer’s despatch dated 20 January 1919; sold with his original M.I.D. certificate in the name of ‘T./Capt. M. B. Chater, attd. I.W.T., I.A.’, dated 1 March 1919.