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23 February 2022

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№ 107

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23 February 2022

Hammer Price:
£1,800

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Major Owen Hart, Royal Field Artillery, later Royal Engineers

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. O. Hart. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major O. Hart.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these two unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, obverse centre of D.S.O. slightly depressed, otherwise good very fine and better

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

M.I.D.
London Gazette 18 May and 11 December, 1917.

Owen Hart was appointed Temporary Lieutenant on 24 November 1914; Temporary Captain, 5 June 1916; Temporary Major, 21 December 1917. He also served in the Second War as a Temporary Major with the Royal Engineers from 14 May 1940.