Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good C.M.G., C.I.E., D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Colonel W. A. Gordon, Worcestershire Regiment, formerly Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

The Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, chip to obverse blue enamel surround; The Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels, Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., chipping to wreaths, obverse centre depressed and reverse cypher loose; Queen’s South Africa1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Capt., Arg. & Suth. Highrs.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., Worc. Rgt.) edge bruise; 1914-15 Star (Major, C.M.G., Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.); Coronation 1911; together with 2nd Cruiser Squadron 1908 Medal, in bronze, the edge inscribed ‘Capt. W. A. Gordon, C.M.G.’, generally good very fine or better (10) £1200-1500

C.M.G. London Gazette 1909.

C.I.E. London Gazette 1919.

D.S.O. London Gazette 2 February 1916.

Despatches three times London Gazette 28 January 1916, 12 March 1918 and 21 February 1919.

Colonel William Alexander Gordon was born on 9 May 1869; educated at Trinity College, Oxford; late Private Secretary to Governor Cape of Good Hope. He joined the Worcestershire Militia in 1897; Major, 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment; Lieutenant Colonel, March 1916; Colonel, 1917; Commandant of Amara, Mesopotamia, 1917, during the Great War he served in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia.