Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

A Great War O.B.E. group of three to Captain H. C. Clogstoun, Labour Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt.)

Four: Lieutenant H. A. A. Clogstoun, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal, M.I.D. oakleaf, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (7) £250-300

Herbert Cunningham Clogstoun

C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1906. ‘Lately adviser to His Highness the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur, and now Tutor to His Highness the Maharaja Holkar’.

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘C.I.E., Labour Corps’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919. ‘C.I.E., Labour Corps’.

Herbert Cunningham Clogstoun was born in 1857, the son of Captain Herbert Mackworth Clogstoun, V.C. Educated at Wellington College, he served in the Bengal Police during 1882-87. He was employed as a Special assistant to the Bengal Government, 1887-91 and under the Foreign Department of the Government of India in Rajputana and Central India, 1891-1906. Awarded the C.I.E. for his services in 1906, he retired in 1912. In the Great War he served in the Labour Corps as a Captain, entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 23 August 1917 and being both mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. He died in 1936. Sold with copied research.

Herbert Anthony Amyas Clogstoun

M.I.D. London Gazette 27 January 1942 ‘For skill and enterprise in action against enemy submarines’. ‘Lieutenant, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Veteran’.

Lieutenant Herbert Anthony Amyas Clogstoun, Royal Navy, was killed in action on 26 September 1942, aged 21 years, when the destroyer H.M.S. Veteran was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic. He was one of nine officers and 150 ratings of the ship killed in the action. He was the son of Herbert Prinsep Somers Clogstoun of Forest Row, Essex. Sold with medal card forwarding box addressed to ‘H. P. S. Clogstoun, Parc, Llanwuda, Caernarvon, North Wales’, together with the named Admiralty condolence slip. Also with a typed letter from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated 12 October 1942, informing Flight Lieutenant H. P. S. Clogstoun, R.A.F. of the loss of his son.