Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War C.M.G., D.S.O. group of six to Brigadier-General C. A. Elliott, Royal Engineers

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, obverse centre depressed; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (Captn., R.E.); 1914-15 Star (Major, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Brig. Gen.) first with minor enamel damage, good very fine (6) £1400-1600

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917. Major (T/Lieut.-Col.) R.E.

M.I.D. London Gazette 13 December 1904 and 4 January 1917.

Charles Allen Elliott served as a Field Engineer in the Tibet Expedition, serving at the action at Niani, the operations in and around Gyantse and the march to Lhassa. Promoted Major in 1910 and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in 1916, Lieutenant-Colonel and Temporary Brigadier-General in 1918. Brigadier-General Elliott, who died on 15 August 1919, aged 48, is buried in Rawalpindi War Cemetery and commemorated on the Delhi Memorial. A total of 107 officers received the Tibet Medal with clasp for Gyantse.