Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of twelve awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Ewart Marnham, Royal Garrison Artillery

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Lieut., R.A.); Defence; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, lacking top bar; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, with Second Award Clasp, both dated ‘1952’; Belgium, Order of Leopold, 5th Class breast badge with swords, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, lacking obverse centre; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, with bronze palm on ribbon, mounted as worn, generally very fine (12) £1200-1600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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M.C. London Gazette 22 September 1916. ‘2/Lieut., R.G.A.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when acting as FOO and Intelligence Officer to his group for a long period of active operations, during which he was daily under fire. His information, gathered at great personal risk was most valuable’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 14 December 1917.

Order of Leopold (Chevalier) London Gazette 25 July 1918 ‘Lieutenant (Acting Major)’.

Croix de Guerre London Gazette 25 July 1918 ‘Lieutenant (Acting Major)’.

Lieutenant Arthur Ewart Marnham, Royal Garrison Artillery, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in February 1916. Retired from the Regular Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1921 when his address was at ‘The Channtry, Burnham Abbey (?), Buckinghamshire. Awarded the Territorial Decoration, published in the London Gazette of 1 November 1929. Lieutenant-Colonel (Brevet Colonel) A. E. Marnham, M.C., T.D., D.L., J.P., was awarded the Efficiency Decoration and first clasp, published in the London Gazette 19 February 1952. With some copied research.