Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Montgomery, Royal Army Service Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (14245 Q.M. Sgt. T. H. Montgomery, 13th Impl: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Capt. T. H. Montgomery, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major T. H. Montgomery); Defence and War Medals, mounted court style as worn, nearly extremely fine (7) £1000-1200

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January and 24 December, 1917.

Thomas Hassard Montgomery served with the 13th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer war, in operations in Cape Colony and Orange River Colony (Queen’s Medal with 2 clasps). He served during the Great War with the Royal Army Service Corps, attaining the rank of Temp. Major. During the Second World War he held a Regular Army Emergency Commission, dated 3 November 1939, as Lieutenant (W.S./Capt. & T/Maj. 3 February 1940; local Lt.-Col. 4 August 1941). He resided at Cadogan House, Shrewsbury, and was a Justice of the Peace.