Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain M. J. St. Aubyn, Dorset Regiment, late Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (30637 Pte. M. J. St. Aubyn. 94th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. M. J. St. Aubyn, Dorset. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. J. St. Aubyn.); together with a Masonic Jewel, silver and silver-gilt, the obverse engraved ‘Excelsior St. Aubyn.’, light pitting and edge bruising to QSA, otherwise good very fine (5) £240-280

Morice Julian St. Aubyn, a scion of the St. Aubyn Baronets of Cornwall, enlisted as a Trooper with the 94th (Metropolitan Mounted Rifles) Company, 24th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry on 4 January 1901, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War from April 1901 until August 1902. Discharged in October 1902, he joined the Worcestershire Yeomanry as a Trooper on the outbreak of the Great War on 1 September 1914, and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment on 22 December 1914. He served with them during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War, being promoted temporary Captain on 8 October 1915 whilst serving in Suvla Bay, and was admitted to Port Said Hospital in April 1916. Invalided home in July 1916, he went to France in February 1917, before returning home in May of that year, relinquishing his commission on 12 October 1917 on account of ill health contracted whilst on active service. He died in Natal, South Africa, on 9 April 1925.