Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Birrell-Anthony, Monmouthshire Regiment, late Volunteer Forces

British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., silver, silver-gilt, complete with upper brooch-bar, unnamed, surname officially corrected on the second, extremely fine (3) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Monmouthshire Regiment formed by Lt. Col. P. A. Blagojevic, O. St. J., T.D..

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Henry Anthony Birrell-Anthony was appointed a Lieutenant in the 2nd Glamorgan Volunteers, R.A. in May 1882, was advanced to Captain in August 1890 and resigned his commission in late 1892, in order to take up an appointment in the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment in the following year - the award of his V.D., however, was gazetted to him as a Captain and Honorary Major in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and under the surname ‘Birrell’ (London Gazette 11 August 1903 refers), for in 1906 he added ‘Anthony’ to his surname by deed poll. Promoted to Major in the Monmouthshire Regiment in June 1911, he was further advanced to Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1914, in which capacity he served 1914-16, winning entitlement to the British War & Victory Medals (MIC entry refers). Placed on the Territorial Force Reserve of Officers in 1917, Birrell-Anthony served as a J.P. for Monmouthshire until his death in the 1920s.