Auction Catalogue

5 December 1995

Starting at 10:30 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Charing Cross Hotel  The Strand  London  WC2N 5HX

Lot

№ 315

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5 December 1995

Hammer Price:
£280

A Great War C.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant Colonel A. F. Church, Chief Engineer, Uganda Railways
The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) 1st type neck badge in silver-gilt and enamels, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Lt.Col., E.Afr.Ry.T.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt.Col), together with ‘Progress Lodge’ Founder’s Jewel 1914, silver-gilt and enamels, good very fine (5)

C.B.E. London Gazette 27 June,1917, Arthur Frederick Church Esq., Chief Engineer of the Uganda Railway. Several mentions of the recipient can be found in ‘Pemanent Way’ by M. F. Hill, the story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway.