Orders, Decorations and Medals

Greece, Order of the Redeemer, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in its Le Maitre, Paris, case of issue; together with Woolwich versus Sandhurst bronze Prize Medal, 40 mm, the reverse inscribed (Gymnastic VIII, R.M.C. Sandhurst 1905. H. E. MacFarlane) in its fitted case of issue, the first with chip to the central cross on the reverse and minor chips to the points of the cross, otherwise good very fine (2) £220-240

Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. MacFarlane, 4th Hussars (late 19th Hussars) served on the Staff during the Great War (mentioned in despatches, awarded D.S.O., M.C., Mons Trio, Legion of Honour and Order of the Redeemer. After the War he transferred to the 4th Hussars, being promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1921. Later that year he was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of the Indian Auxiliary and Territorial Forces, Madras District, and was actively involved in the Moplah revolt (Medal with Malabar clasp). He retired in 1930. See Lot 314 for his miniature group.