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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 4

x A 1935 ´Kenya, Colonial Service´ C.M.G. Group of Six to Lieutenant A.M. Champion, Royal Field Artillery, Later Provincial Commissioner, Kenya a) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion´s (C.M.G.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor adhesive damage to obverse central medallion b) The Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer´s breast Badge, silver and enamel c) 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. A.M. Champion. R.F.A.) d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lieut. A.M. Champion.) e) Jubilee 1935, generally good very fine (6) Estimate £ 550-600 C.M.G. London Gazette 3.6.1935 Arthur Mortimer Champion, Esq., Provincial Commissioner, 2nd Grade, Kenya. Officer, Order of St. John London Gazette 3.1.1939 Arthur Mortimer Champion, C.M.G. Lieutenant Arthur Mortimer Champion, C.M.G., (1885-1950), educated at Clifton College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Indian Army, 5.8.1905; entered the Colonial Service, 1909, and Appointed Assistant District Commissioner, East African Protectorate; served during the Great War with No. 172 Battery, Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front; Twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4.1.1917 and 21.5.1918); District Commissioner, East African Protectorate, 1918; Provincial Commissioner 2nd Grade, Kenya, 1931-35; re-employed with the Kenyan Government in charge of Cinema Propaganda in Native Areas, 1940.

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