Auction Catalogue

18 September 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Forte Crest Bloomsbury Hotel  Coram Street  London  WC1N 1HT

Lot

№ 680

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18 September 1998

Hammer Price:
£360

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Lieutenant A. E. Yapp, Royal Artillery, who went to France in 1914 as a Motor Cycle Corporal in the Royal Engineers, and was later Consul-General at New Orleans

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with Mons bar (29630 M.C.Cpl., R.E.) note rare rank; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, together with various badges and buttons, good very fine (5) £350-400

A news cutting sold with the group states: ‘Lieut. A. E. Yapp, R.G.A., has been awarded the Military Cross for “gallantry and devotion to duty under enemy fire, maintaining Battery and O.P. communications under very dangerous circumstances. In 1914 Lieut. Yapp was employed at Sir Thomas Rich’s School as French master, and joined up in early 1914, going out with the 6th Division as Motor Cyclist despatch rider.’ He served in France and Belgium from 9 November 1914 to August 1915, and from October 1916 to November 1918. He was first commissioned, from the ranks, as 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, on 24 April 1916; Lieutenant, 26 February 1918. After the War, Yapp joined the Consular Service and was at some time H.M. Chargé d’Affaires and Consul-General in Monrovia. He transferred to Rouen in November 1937, to New York in May 1940, and to New Orleans in January 1941, where he was Acting Consul-General. He retired on a pension in May 1942, and died on 2 October 1954.