Orders, Decorations and Medals

A mounted group of ten attributed to Colonel Arthur Edward Waldegrave Courtney, late Royal Army Service Corps

Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., silver-gilt and enamel, ring suspension; Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. 1st type, military division, silver-gilt and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1897, silver; France, Legion of Honour, Officer’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on ribbon; Belgium, Order of Leopold I, Officer’s badge with swords, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, mounted court style as worn, some enamel damage to first, otherwise generally good very fine (10) £160-200

Arthur Edward Waldegrave Courtney was born on 10 October 1868, the eldest son of Major-General Edward H. Courtney, C.V.O. He entered the Army in 1889, being commissioned into the Lancashire Fusiliers and transferred to the A.S.C. in 1893. He was promoted to Captain in 1896, Major in 1908, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1912. He served in the Boer War, 1899-1901, taking part in the advance on Kimberley, the operations at Paadeberg, Poplar Grove and Driefontein and the actions at Biddulphaberg, Bethlehem, Wittebergen, and Caledon River. Post-war he was Staff-Captain, Cork District, 1902-03 and DADST, Eastern Command, 1906-10. During the early years of the Great War he served as AD and DD of Requisition Services. Latterly he was Liaison Officer with Army HQ, 1915-18 and ADST, Northern Command, 1918-19. Colonel Courtney was placed on Retired Pay in 1922. For his wartime services he was awarded the C.M.G. in 1915 and C.B.E. in 1918, together with awards from Belgium and France. With copied research. The group was illustrated in Success of a General, by Brian L. Kieran.