Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O., O.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Colonel A. M. Duthie, Royal Artillery

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 1st type; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1900, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., Imp. Yeo.); 1914 Star, with slide type clasp (Capt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. (Lt. Col.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (L-Col., R.A.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1911; Special Constabulary Medal, G.V.R. (Arthur M. Duthie); Legion of Honour, Officer, silver, gilt and enamels, generally good very fine (11) £750-850

D.S.O. London Gazette 14 January 1916.

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915, 1 January 1916, 18 May 1917, 21 May 1918, 23 December 1918, and 3 August 1920 (Afghanistan).

Arthur Murray Duthie was born on 12 June 1881, and was educated at Marlborough and R.M.A., Woolwich. He entered the Army in November 1899 and served in South Africa with the Imperial Yeomanry, February to November 1902. He served in France and Belgium from 25 August 1914 to 14 October 1918, and as Brigade Major, from September 1914 to January 1916, and then as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General. He was specially employed at the War Office, October 1918 to January 1919, when he joined the Baluchistan Force, serving in Afghanistan. He was subsequently Commandant of the Artillery School at Quetta, and C.R.A. Scottish Command.