Auction Catalogue

25 February 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 364

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25 February 1998

Hammer Price:
£1,550

An impressive mounted group of twenty-six miniature dress medals attributed to Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, K.G., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., D.S.O., Commander 2nd Army Corps 1939-40, C-in-C Home Forces 1940-41, Chief of Imperial General Staff 1941-46
The Most Honourable Order of The Bath (Military) gold and enamels; The Royal Victorian Order, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, gold and enamels, with Second Award Bar; 1914 Star with Bar; British War and Victory Medals with M.I.D. oak leaf; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Belgium, Croix de Guerre 1914-18; Poland, Order of Polonia Restituta, gilt and enamels; U.S.S.R., Order of Suvorov, 1st class, silver, gilt and enamels; Legion of Honour, gilt and enamels; Order of Leopold I of Belgium (Military), gilt and enamels; U.S.A., Distinguished Service Medal (Army); Czechoslovakia, Order of the White Lion (Military), gilt and enamels; Czechoslovakia, Military Order of the White Lion, 1st class star; Greece, Order of the Redeemer, gilt and enamels; France, Croix de Guerre 1939-45 with palm; Belgium, Croix de Guerre 1939-45 with palm; Czechoslovakia, War Cross 1939-45, the group court mounted as worn and contained in an old leather carrying case, reverse centre lacking from the D.S.O., otherwise nearly extremely fine (26) £800-1000