Auction Catalogue

27 July 2022

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 110

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27 July 2022

Hammer Price:
£1,000

Five: Captain The Earl of Abingdon and Lindsey, Grenadier Guards, late Royal Engineers and Royal Naval Air Service

1914 Star (Lieut. Hon. M. H. E. C. Towneley-Bertie. R.E.) officially re-impressed naming; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Hon. M. H. E. C. Towneley-Bertie.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, good very fine (5) £600-£800

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003.

Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon and 13th Earl of Lindsey, was born on 2 November 1887, the only son of Lord Norreys (1860-1919), the eldest son and heir apparent of the 7th Earl of Abingdon (1836-1928). Educated at Eton, he entered the Royal Anglesey R.E. (Militia) as a Second Lieutenant in 1905, and was promoted Lieutenant in 1907. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 3 November 1914, and was briefly seconded as a Flight Lieutenant with the Royal Naval Air Service. Promoted Captain in 1915, he transferred that same year to the Grenadier Guards with the rank of Lieutenant, and was twice wounded (13 September 1916 and 10 May 1918). Promoted Temporary Captain in August 1918, he was demobilised in February 1919. He assumed the courtesy title of Lord Norreys upon the death of his father in 1919, and succeeded his grandfather as 8th Earl of Abingdon in 1928, and to the title of 13th Earl of Lindsey upon the death of his distant cousin in 1938. He served as High Steward of Abingdon, and died in 1963.

Sold with copied research. Entitlement to the Coronation Medals unconfirmed.