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Auction: 1005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 252

Miniature Awards: The K.B.E., C.B., M.C. Group of Fifteen Attributed to Major-General Sir Eustace F. Tickell, Royal Engineers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Knight Commander´s (K.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with Bar; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves; 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; France, Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer´s Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; France, Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse undated, with bronze Palm, good very fine, mounted as worn, together with a photograph of the recipient (15) Estimate £ 180-220 K.B.E. London Gazette 5.7.1945 Major-General Eustace Francis Tickell, C.B., C.B.E., M.C. (8173), late Corps of Royal Engineers ´In recognition of gallant and distinguished conduct in North West Europe.´ C.B.E. London Gazette 1.4.1941 Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Eustace Francis Tickell, M.C. (8173), late Corps of Royal Engineers ´In recognition of distinguished services in the Middle East during the period August 1939 to November 1940.´ C.B. London Gazette 9.9.1942 Major-General (temporary) Eustace Francis Tickell, C.B.E., M.C. (8173), late Royal Corps of Engineers ´In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East during the period November 1941 to April 1942.´ Major-General Sir Eustace Francis Tickell, K.B.E., C.B., M.C., (1893-1972), educated at Bedford School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 18.7.1913; served during the Great War on the Western Front from 9.9.1914; Lieutenant, 9.6.1915; Captain, 3.11.1917; saw action in Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, the Aegean Sea, and Egypt; Wounded, Brevet of Major, awarded the Military Cross, and twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 22.6.1915 and 21.7.1917); Major, 22.11.1928; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1.10.1933; Colonel, 1.10.1936; served during the Second World War as Chief Engineer, British Troops in Egypt and the Middle East; Chief Engineer to Field Marshal Montgomery, North West Europe Campaign; five times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 30.12.1941; 30.6.1942; 6.4.1944; 22.3.1945; 9.8.1945); Major-General, 30.9.1941; Engineer-in-Chief, Royal Engineers, 1945; Retired, 9.2.1949; Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Engineers, 1950-58. Provenance: Sotheby, 8.2.1990

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