Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Major M. L. Maughan, Transvaal Scottish, late Labour Corps and Rand Light Infantry

British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. M. L. Maughan); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these unnamed; South Africa Medal for War Service, all other Second War awards officially named ’126303 M. L. Maughan’; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Major. M. L. Maughan, 1st Bn. T.S.); Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Union of South Africa, reverse inscribed ‘Maj. M. L. Maughan-T.S.’, with an 8th Inf. Transvaal Scottish cap badge, mounted court style for wear, lacquered, generally good very fine (9) £300-£400

Provenance: J. Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009.

Mark Leslie Maughan served as a Private in the 28th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles) from 1 September 1916. He was commissioned a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the Labour Corps on 16 December 1917, and on 7 September 1918 he was transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers. For his services in the Great War he received the British War Medal only. Moving to South Africa after the Great War, Maughan joined the Rand Light Infantry on 1 July 1922, and on 22 October was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant. He transferred to the Reserve of Officers in May 1926 but rejoined the Rand Light Infantry in October 1928. In July 1930 he transferred to the Transvaal Scottish and by 1938 had attained the rank of Major. He was awarded the Colonial Forces L.S. Medal (Staatskoerant 21 June 1940) and Efficiency Decoration (Union of South Africa) (Government Gazette 6 March 1942).

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