Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. G. Vesey, Royal Engineers

Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (Major, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) good very fine (4) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late John Cooper.

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Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. G. Vesey, Royal Engineers, served in the Ashanti Expedition 1895-6 (Star). During the Great War he was C.R.E. of 5 Division, July 1915 to April 1916, and of 7 Corps Troops from April 1917. He served in France and Belgium from 5 November 1914 to 8 April 1916, and from 25 April 1917 to 30 October 1918. Mentioned in despatches London Gazette 17 February and 22 June 1915 (1914 Star).