Auction Catalogue

26 March 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 746

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26 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£500

A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant and Quartermaster George Charles Newport, Royal Fusiliers, late 1st Royal Dragoons

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4796 Pte., 1st Rl. Dragoons); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Q.M. & Lieut.) mounted as worn; together with a similar mounted set of four miniature dress medals, good very fine (8) £300-340

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

George Charles Newport appointed Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 39th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Jewish Battalion) on 24 January 1918. He entered the Egypt theatre of war on 27 April 1918. Serving in Palestine, he was present with the battalion in the Jordan Valley, taking part in the September 1918 offensive, in the advance on Es Salt and Ammar. Sold with riband bar and some copied research. M.I.D. not confirmed.