Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Major the Honourable M. J. C. W. Fane, Royal Army Service Corps, late British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem

British War and Victory Medals (Hon. M. J. C. W. Fane. B.R.C. & St. J.J.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., silver and silver-gilt, the reverse officially dated ‘1944’, lacking integral top riband bar, gilding almost all rubbed on last, nearly very fine and better (7) £200-300

The Honourable Mountjoy John Charles Wedderburn Fane was born on 8 October 1900, the second son of the 13th Earl of Westmoreland and his wife Lady Sybil, daughter of the 4th Earl of Rossyln, and was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He served during the Great War with the British Red Cross, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Leicestershire Yeomanry, on 17 March 1927. He served during the Second World War in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was advanced to Major.

Fane married Miss Agatha Acland-Hood-Reynardson, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Acland-Hood-Reynardson, on 29 April 1926, and they had one son and one daughter. In later life he served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire. He died on 9 October 1963.