Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Major-General C. W. Mainprise, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan & North West Frontier 1908; Delhi Durbar 1911, mounted as worn, together with full-size Jubilee 1935 and Coronation 1937 Medals, enamel wreaths on the first slightly chipped in places, otherwise good very fine (9) £180-220

Cecil Wilmot Mainprise was born at Southsea, Hampshire in June 1873 and was appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in July 1898. Embarked for India in the following year, he participated in the Tibet Expedition 1903-04 (Medal & clasp), prior to returning home on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, when he was quickly embarked for France. He remained actively employed in the same theatre of war until transferring to Salonika in 1918 and was awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 1 January 1917, refers), in addition to a brace of “mentions” (London Gazettes 1 January 1916 and 6 January 1917, refer). Having then witnessed further active service in the Third Afghan War (Medal & clasp), Mainprise served as Commandant of the R.A.M.C. College and was advanced to Major-General in September 1926. He died at Aldershot, Hampshire in February 1951.