Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Presentation Riding Crop.
A riding crop, by Swaine & Adeney Ltd., London, brown leather with bone handle, with silver band at top engraved ‘Presented to the Honourable Francis Alan Broderick on his 21st Birthday by the Peper Hadow Cricket Club. Feb. 27th. 1931.’, generally good condition £70-£90

The Honourable Francis Alan Broderick was born on 27 February 1910, the second son of the William St. John Broderick, K.P., 1st Earl of Midleton, of Peper Harow, Surrey. In 1933, following the death of his great aunt, the Baroness Seaforth, succeeded to the Seaforth estates, changing his name by deed poll to Stewart-Mackenzie.

Commissioned into the Surrey Yeomanry, Stewart-Mackenzie served during the Second World War in charge of 392 Battery, 98 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and was present at the evacuation of Dunkirk He saw further service in North Africa and Italy, and was killed at Rossano, near Salerno, on 11 September 1943. He is buried in Salerno War Cemetery, Italy, next to his brother who died the following day.

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