Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An O.B.E. group of three to Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Hawks, Military Farms Department, Supply and Transport Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-02 (Lieutt., S.& T. Corps; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col.) good very fine (3) £200-250

O.B.E. London Gazette 12 September 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazette 11 June 1920.

George Augustus Hawks was born on 27 May 1874. He received his first commission in October 1894 and was appointed to the Indian Army in 1896. Employed in the Supply and Transport Corps, he saw service on the N.W. Frontier of India, Waziristan during 1901-02. During the Great War he was employed as an Assistant Director, Grass Farms, in the Military Farms Department.