Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1274

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£550

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Major N. M. R. Radcliffe-Smith, 44th Merwara Infantry, later 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Capt., 44/Merwara Infy.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj.) very fine (4) £400-450

M.C. London Gazette 25 August 1917: ‘For distinguished service in the field in Mesopotamia. Captain (now Major) Noel Mervyn Radcliffe Radcliffe-Smith, Indian Army.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917.

Served in Mesopotamia, November 1915 to August 1918; and in Persia and the Persian Gulf, August to October 1918.