Auction Catalogue

23 September 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 896

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23 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£1,900

A Great War D.S.O., O.B.E. group of six awarded to Colonel E. L. Hughes, Northamptonshire Regiment

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, reverse cypher loose, some enamel damage to wreaths; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt., North’n. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Col.); Italy, Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, very fine and better (6) £1800-2200

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1916. ‘Major, Northampton Regiment’

O.B.E. (Civil)
London Gazette 18 November 1918; changed to a ‘Military’ award, London Gazette 15 April 1919 - recommended by the Secretary of State for War for services during the war.

M.I.D.
London Gazette 15 June 1916; 4 January 1917; 15 May 1917(?); 30 May 1918.

Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus
London Gazette 21 August 1919.

Edmund Locock Hughes was born in Plymouth on 21 February 1880, the son of Robert Harry Hughes, M.B., of Down House, Whitchurch, Tavistock. He was educated at Kelly College, Tavistock; Marlborough College, and Clare College, Cambridge. He entered the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in India as a ‘Varsity Candidate’ 1900 and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1901, Captain in 1908 and Major in 1915. Served as Adjutant of the 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, 1910-13 and qualified for the Staff College in 1913. On the Staff he attained the rank of Colonel and served in France/Flanders, 14 August-10 September 1914 and 18 May 1915-10 May 1917, and in Italy, 2 November 1917-2 July 1918.

He was wounded in action; four times mentioned in despatches, and awarded the D.S.O., O.B.E. (military) and the Italian Order of St, Maurice and St. Lazarus. With two original photographs of the recipient in uniform, some copied research.