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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 2

An Interesting ´Military Division´ C.B., Second War ´1943´ O.B.E., American Legion of Merit Group of Five to Captain The Rt. Hon. Sir Rodger Winn, Naval Intelligence Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Later a Lord Justice of Appeal a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel b) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Officer´s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt c) Defence and War Medals d) United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer´s breast Badge, silver and enamel, lacking star from riband, nearly extremely fine, together with the related miniature awards, in Garrard, London, case, and the following documents &c.: - Scroll from the College of Arms granting Arms and Crest to Sir Charles Rodger Noel Winn, dated 20.8.1959, in leather box - Scroll and Seal appointing Sir Charles Rodger Noel Winn a Lord Justice of Appeal, dated 3.2.1965, in leather box - Bestowal Document for the Legion of Merit, dated 14.6.1945 (5) Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 C.B. London Gazette 12.6.1947 Temporary Captain Charles Rodger Noel Winn, O.B.E., R.N.V.R. O.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1943 Temporary Commander Charles Rodger Noel Winn, R.N.V.R. United States of America, Officer, Legion of Merit London Gazette 17.7.1945 Temporary Acting Captain (Special) Charles Rodger Noel Winn, R.N.V.R. ´For gallant and distinguished service whilst in command of the invasion operations on Normandy´ Captain the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Rodger Noel Winn, C.B., O.B.E., (1903-72), educated at Oundle, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard University; called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1928; served during the Second World War as Director of the Admiralty´s Submarine Tracking Room, part of the Operational Intelligence Centre; with the temporary rank of Commander, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; advanced Captain, his reputation and influence having extended to the United States of America, where his Tracking Room was the model for a similar facility; returned to the Bar 1945; Junior Counsel to the Treasury, 1954-59; Appointed a Judge of the High Court, 1959 (Knight Bachelor, London Gazette 22.5.1959); served on the Lord Chancellor´s Law Reform Committee from 1963; Appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal and a member of the Privy Council, 1965 (London Gazette 3.2.1965).

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