Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

A Great War D.S.O. group of four to Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. P. Goodwin, Royal Engineers

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., complete with top bar; 1914-15 Star (Major, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Lt. Col.), mounted Court style for wear, in Spink, London leather case, cleaned and lacquered, nearly extremely fine (4) £800-1000

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 20 May 1918 and 7 July 1919.

George Joseph Power Goodwin was born in 1877 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1896, attaining the rank of Major in October 1914. During the Great War he served in Egypt, December 1915 to March 1916, and in France and Flanders, March to May 1916, and September 1917 to November 1918, and was wounded. He gained the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1919.