Auction Catalogue

3 December 1997

Starting at 2:00 PM

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World Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 91

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3 December 1997

Hammer Price:
£160

Legion of Honour, Third Republic (1870), Chevalier’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, together with Croix de Guerre 1914-18, and award certificate for the Legion of Honour to Major Edgard Carnegie Anstey, Staff of the Major General of the Army of the Dardanelles, dated 21 February 1916, good very fine (2)

Lieutenant Colonel E. C. Anstey served with the Royal Artillery during the Great War from 1914. He was awarded the D.S.O., Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre, and was six times mentioned in despatches.