Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Five: Captain C. C. G. Gordon, Royal Engineers
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (23121 S. Sjt: C. C. G. Gordon. R.E.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (23121 S. Serjt: C. C. G. Gordon. R.E.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Q.M. & Lieut. C. C. G. Gordon.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (23121 F. of W. Q.M.S. C. C. G. Gordon. R.E.); together with an Army Temperance Association: Home 1 Year Medal, silver (C. Gordon. R.E. 1897); and the recipient’s related miniature awards, excluding the Defence Medal, the miniature QSA with clasp Natal instead of Cape Colony, overall generally good very fine

Three: Draftsman Sergeant S. F. G. Gordon, Royal Engineers
British War Medal 1914-20 (11175 Cpl. S. F. G. Gordon. R.E.; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Stewart Frank Glennie Gordon) in Royal Mint case of issue; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (11175 E.C. & D. Sjt. S. F. G. Gordon. R.E.); together with three Masonic Medals, good very fine (lot) £300-400

Cosmo Charles Glennie Gordon was born in Alverstoke, Hampshire, in 1872 and attested for the Royal Engineers. Advanced Foreman of Works Quartermaster Sergeant, he was appointed Quartermaster on 14 January 1915, and granted the honorary rank of Captain on 14 January 1918.

Stewart Frank Glennie Gordon attested for the Royal Engineers on 17 June 1902 and served during the Great War in Singapore, where he took part in the operations against the Mutineers in February to March 1915, and in the subsequent Expedition to quell the Native Uprising in the Malay State of Kelantan, 2-17 May 1915 (entitled to a British War Medal only). Appointed an Engineering Clerk and Draftsman, he was advanced Quartermaster Sergeant on 8 January 1925. He was discharge in 1927, and subsequently served as an Architectural Assistant at the War Office, being awarded his Imperial Service Medal in 1959 (London Gazette 24 November 1959).

Sold with two Princess Mary Christmas Boxes 1914, with Christmas card and Bullet Pencil; a Royal Engineers cap badge; a British and Foreign Sailors’ Society Silver Cross; Royal British Legion lapel badge and tie pin; S. F. G. Gordon’s ‘Small Book’; and various original documents; letters; and copied research.