Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. R. Salter, The Rifle Brigade

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) 2nd type; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut.); Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine (5) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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Frank Rayner Salter was born on 7 May 1887, the son of the official shorthand writer to the Houses of Parliament. He was educated at St Paul’s School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a 1st class degree in history and was elected a Fellow of Magdalene College in 1910. His obituary mentions his two books (on Marx and Gresham) and his fine teaching which resulted in many excellent degrees for his students. He was President of Magdalene in 1951-57 and was a Member of Cambridge Council representing the University. He stood as a Liberal candidate for Cambridge in 1924, was a Governor of St Paul’s School and wrote its history. The least military of men, during the 1914-18 war he was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade, was wounded with the Machine Gun Corps, and ended more aptly with the army educational authorities in Ireland. In the war of 1939-45, already in his mid-fifties and with the rank of Colonel, he supervised the welfare of the troops in East Anglia and was made O.B.E. in 1944. In 1954 he was appointed Warden of Madingley Hall, where he remained until 1961. He died on 22 November 1967, aged 80.