Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain C. P. M. Haes, Army Service Corps, who served as Supply Officer to the Portuguese Army in France, and was awarded both the Portuguese Order of Aviz, and the French Order of the Black Star

1914-15 Star (SS-7756 S.S. Mjr. C. P. M. Haes. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. P. M. Haes.); Portugal, Republic, Order of Aviz, Chevalier’s breast badge, gilt and enamel,with gilt slide bar on riband; France, Third Republic, Order of the Black Star, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver and enamel, minor enamel damage to last, otherwise very fine and a rare combination of awards (5) £300-£400

Believed to be one of only 7 such combinations of awards.

Portuguese Order of Aviz, Chevalier London Gazette 17 October 1919:
‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’

French Order of the Black Star, Chevalier London Gazette 17 March 1920:
‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’

Charles Percival Mount Haes was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, in 1876, and was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset. A stock broker by trade, he attested for the 1st 13th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers on 24 June 1895, and was advanced Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant. He transferred to the Surrey Imperial Yeomanry as Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant on 22 March 1902, and then to the Middlesex Imperial Yeomanry, being commissioned Quartermaster (Honorary Lieutenant) on 15 March 1907. He relinquished his commission in April 1909.

Haes served during the Great War on the Western Front with the Army Service Corps as a Staff Sergeant Major from 29 March 1915, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in November 1916. He subsequently served as a Supply Officer with the Portuguese Expeditionary Force from 1917, and was promoted Captain on 1 October 1918. Following the cessation of hostilities he remained in France with the Army Service Corps at the Base Supply Depot at both Dunkirk and Calais, before proceeding to Ireland in 1921, and saw further service with the Athlone Brigade from March to August 1921. He relinquished his commission on demobilisation on 24 February 1922, and died at Bridge, Kent, in 1951.

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