Auction Catalogue

2 July 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1112

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2 July 2003

Hammer Price:
£1,400

A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel R. M. Powell, Royal Artillery

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., 10 Co. W.D. R.G.A.); 1914 Star (Capt., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lt. Col.) contact marks, otherwise generally very fine or better (5) £500-600

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

Mention in Despatches
London Gazette 19 October 1914; 17 February 1915; 1 January 1916; 4 January 1917; 11 December 1917 and 20 May 1918.

Robert Montagu Powell was born in May 1881 and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in January 1900. Advanced to Lieutenant in April 1901, during the course of his services in the South African War, he was a Captain, R.G.A. by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. Powell arrived in France in the same month, where he served until March 1915, winning a brace of ‘mentions’. Returning to the Front as a newly promoted Major in July of the latter year, he served there continuously until April 1918, adding four more ‘mentions’ and a D.S.O. to his accolades. Powell, who was Assistant Director of ‘A’ Signals, 10 Corps from November 1916, was given the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1918.