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

№ 906

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23 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£2,100

A Second World War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Colonel G. H. Rogers, Commander of the 5th Somerset (Bath City) Battalion Home Guard, late 11th Rajput Regiment

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type badge, silver-gilt; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (Lieut., 11th Rajputs); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Captn., 11th Rajputs); 1914-15 Star (Capt., 11/ Rajputs); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Maj.); Defence Medal, unnamed, mounted for wear, good very fine and better (7) £800-1000

O.B.E. London Gazette 15 December 1944. ‘Colonel Guy Hamilton Rogers, North Somerset Sector Home Guard’ in recognition of meritorious service in the Home Guard.

Guy Hamilton Rogers was born in Canada on 29 November 1877 and was educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada. He was commissioned into the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment on 10 August 1898 and transferred to the Indian Army on 25 September 1900. Served as an officer with the 11th Rajputs in Waziristan, 1901-02 and on the N.W. Frontier in operations in Mohmand country, in 1908. He served with the same regiment during the Great War 1914-21 and also served on the General Staff in Mesopotamia and Persia, at Army H.Q. India and at the War Office. For his services he received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1938, having retired from the Indian Army, Colonel Rogers joined the A.R.P. and was made Deputy Chief Warden. He continued in that capacity until 1940 when at the request of Bath City authorities he was released from his A.R.P. duties in order to raise the Local Defence Volunteers. He subsequently became the Commander of the Bath Home Guard, 1940-43. For his services as such he was awarded the O.B.E.

With a quantity of original photographs of the recipient encompassing his military service; also with a presentation certificate given to Rogers by the Company Commanders and H.Q. Staff upon his relinquishing command of the 5th Bath City Battalion Home Guard; together with copied m.i.c., copied letters of congratulation on receiving the O.B.E.; copied newspaper extracts re the formation of the Bath City Home Guard.