Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

The mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals attributed to Brigadier F. N. C. Rossiter, Royal Artillery, Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Member’s (M.B.E.), Military Division; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victoryt Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W. Frontier 1919; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted Court style as worn, generally extremely fine (12) £40-60

Sold with recipient’s original commission document as 2nd Leutenant in the R.A. dated 1909; M.I.D. certificate dated 22 September 1915; M.B.E. bestowal document, dated 1918; School of Artillery Certificate, dated 1928; M.I.D. certificate, dated 20 December 1940. Also with a number of photographs and associated newspaper cuttings relating the visit of H.R.H. The Duke of Kent to Shoeburyness to witness demonstrations of explosives- Colonel Rossiter, Superintendent of Experiments being in attendance.

Frederick N. C. Rossiter gained his Military Cross as a Captain with the 26th Jacob’s Mountain Battery, Indian Army, for conspicuous gallantry in the operations on the Gallipoli Peninsula, when the enemy’s high explosive shells had set fire to a gun emplacement and ammunition boxes. He extinguished the fire at great personal risk from the enemy’s fire as well as from the ammunition, some of which exploded.