Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. H. Keyes, Royal Garrison Artillery

British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. A. J. H. Keyes.); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of the White Eagle, 2nd type, Fourth Class breast badge, with swords, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, enamel damage to blue pendalia below crown on last, good very fine and better (3) £300-£400

Serbian Order of the White Eagle, Fourth Class with swords London Gazette 15 February 1917.

Alfred John Hudlestone Keyes was born in 1873 and educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1893, he was appointed a Lieutenant in November 1896 and was advanced to Captain in April 1900. Serving as Adjutant from 1900 to 1903, in 1907 he attended the Gunnery Staff Course at the School of Gunnery. Appointed Staff Captain, R.A. in February 1909, he was seconded to the Staff for the next four years, before being restored to the establishment of the R.G.A. in February 1913. Promoted to Major in August 1914, he was awarded the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1917 (London Gazette 8 August 1917) and served as Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, October 1917 to May 1918, and was promoted to that rank in June 1918. He served during the Great War in India, Gibraltar, Ceylon, and East Africa; was A.A. & Q.M.G. of Malta, 1917-18, and served on the Western Front from 10 October to 11 November 1918. For his wartime services he was awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle Fourth Class.

After the war Keyes was placed on Half Pay but was restored to Full Pay whilst employed with an Inter-Allied Commission of Control in 1922. Returning to Half Pay in March 1925 he ceased to be an officer in the R.A.R.O. in November 1928, and died in 1933.

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