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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 474

Miniature Awards: The C.B. Group of Ten Attributed to Vice Admiral R.C. Davenport, Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Civil Division, Companion´s (C.B.) Badge, silver-gilt; Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; France, Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer´s Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband, nearly extremely fine, mounted court-style as worn, in fitted leather case (10) Estimate £ 80-100 C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1936 Rear-Admiral Robert Clutterbuck Davenport. Vice-Admiral Robert Clutterbuck Davenport, C.B., (1882-1965); educated at H.M.S. Britannia, Dartmouth; Midshipman, 1897; served during the South African War and the Great War (Officer, Legion of Honour, 1916); advanced Commander, 1916; Captain, 1922; Appointed A.D.C. to King George V, 1933; Rear-Admiral, 1934; Commanding Officer, Coast of Scotland, 1935-37; Vice-Admiral, 1938; Commodore of Convoys, 1939-40; served on the Selection Board for Temporary Commissions, R.N.V.R., 1941-46.

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