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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 7

A Second War 1941 ´Military Division´ O.B.E., Great War ´Western Front´ M.C. Group of Eleven to Colonel R.W.W. Hills, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, Late Royal Fusiliers, Mentioned in Despatches for Waziristan 1936-39 a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Officer´s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt b) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued c) 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. R.W.W. Hills. R. Fus.) d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. R.W.W. Hills.) e) India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., two clasps, Waziristan 1921-24, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Lieut. R.W.W. Hills. R.A.S.C.) f) India General Service 1936-39, two clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (Major R.W.W. Hills. R.I.A.S.C.) g) 1939-1945 Star, reverse impressed ´Col. R.W. Hills´ h) Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf, both impressed ´Col. R.W. Hills´ i) Coronation 1953, lacquered, generally nearly extremely fine, housed in a glazed frame (11) Estimate £ 1,200-1,400 O.B.E. London Gazette 1.7.1941 Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald William Welfare Hills, M.C., Royal Indian Army Service Corps. M.C. London Gazette 3.6.1918 Lt. (T./Capt.) Reginald William Welfare Hills, R.Fus., Spec. Res. M.I.D. London Gazette 11.12.1917 Hills, Lt. (temp. Capt.) R. W. W., R. Fus. ´For distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty during the period February 26th to midnight, September 20/21st, 1917.´ M.I.D. London Gazette 17.10.1939 Hills, Maj. R.W.W., M.C. ´For distinguished service rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Waziristan, during the period 16th December 1937, to 31st December, 1938.´ Colonel Reginald William Welfare Hills, O.B.E., M.C., born May 1894; served in the ranks for 147 days; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Fusiliers, 10.2.1915; served during the Great War on the Western Front, May 1915 to November 1918; appointed Staff Captain, 73rd Infantry Brigade, 3.2.1917; Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps, 1.7.1917; Captain, 20.10.1919; appointed Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, Defence Force, 28.5.1921; served during the Waziristan Campaign, 1921-24; Staff Captain, India, 21.8.1926; Captain, 15.9.1926; transferred Indian Army, 30.6.1927; Major, 20.10.1933; appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies, Waziristan District, 18.12.1937 (Mentioned in Despatches); Lieutenant-Colonel, 4.8.1940; Colonel, 15.11.1941.

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