Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

The mounted group of seventeen miniature dress medals attributed to General Sir H. S. Horne, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., 1st Baron Stirkoke, Order of the Bath, Military Division, gold and enamel; Order of St. Michael and St. George, gold and enamel; Queen’s South Africa, 5 clasps, Rel. of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen; King’s South Africa, 2 clasps; 1914 Star with clasp; British War and Victory Medals; Jubilee 1897, silver; U.S.A., Army Distinguished Service Medal, enamelled; France, Legion of Honour, Officer, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, rosette on ribbon, some enamel damage; Belgium, Order of Leopold I, gold and enamel; Russia, Order of St. Vladimir, with swords, gold and enamel, reverse centre missing; Portugal, Military Order of Christ, Commander, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Portugal. Military Order of Aviz, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage; Japan, Order of the Rising Sun, 1st Class, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, reverse centre missing; France, Croix de Guerre, 1914-18; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, mounted Court-style as worn, good very fine except where stated (17) £280-320

General Sir Henry Horne, 1st Baron Stirkoke, was born in Stirkoke in1861 and educated at Harrow and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1880 and as a Major served in the Boer War where he was mentioned in despatches and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. Entering the Great War as Brigadier-General he commanded the Artillery of 1st Corps in 1914; commanded the 2nd Division in 1915, serving in Egypt for the defence of the Suez Canal. In the following year he commanded 15th Corps and thence the 1st Army in France until the end of the War, for which he was promoted General, mentioned in despatches and awarded the K.C.B. and K.C.M.G. After the war he was created 1st Baron Stirkoke and received the G.C.B. Retiring in 1926, he died in 1929. The recipient’s full-size awards were sold at Sotheby’s, lot 153, 28.2.1985.