Auction Catalogue

16 December 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

№ 866

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16 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£200

A Great War M.B.E. group of three to Lieutenant F. C. Doherty, Essex Regiment

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed; together with a companion set of four miniature dress medals, nearly extremely fine (7) £80-120

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

M.I.D.
London Gazette 22 March 1918.

Francis Cecil Doherty was born in 1892 and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. In the Great War he served in France with the 1/5th Battalion Essex Regiment, from September 1916 to January 1917 when he was invalided. He was employed for the remainder of the conflict by the Ministry of Munitions, in recognition of which he was awarded the M.B.E. Post-war he was Assistant Master at Radley College, 1921-24; Master at King’s College School, 1925-29; Headmaster at Oaklam School, 1929-34 and Headmaster at Lancing College, 1934-53. He died in 1959. Sold with copied research.