Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2014

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

№ 1108

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26 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£410

An inter-war C.B.E. pair awarded to Brigadier G. C. Sturrock, late Royal Artillery, a long served officer in the Indian Army Ordnance Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col. G. C. Sturrock), rank officially corrected on the last, polished, thus nearly very fine, the C.B.E. good very fine (2) £340-380

C.B.E. London Gazette 3 July 1926.

George Colleymore Sturrock was born in November 1872, the son of John Sturrock, C.I.E., of the Indian Civil Service, and was educated at Charterhouse and the R.M.A. Woolwich.

Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in March 1892, he held a string of appointments in the Indian Army Ordnance Corps n the period leading up to the outbreak of the Great War, among them Assistant Proof and Experimental Officer at the Gun Powder Factory at Kirkee, Assistant Superintendent at the Cordite Factory and Deputy Director of Ordinance Factories - and he served in the latter capacity throughout the War, gaining advancement to Lieutenant-Colonel.

Post-hostilities he served as Director of Ordinance Factories and Manufacture, A.H.Q., Simla, and as Deputy Master General of Supply and Deputy Master General of Ordinance, prior to being placed on the Retired List as a Brigadier in 1929. The Brigadier, who settled in Dorset, died in November 1935; sold with research.