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Auction: 1008 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 51

A ´1918´ C.B. Group of three to Colonel and Chief Paymaster W.G.S. Benson, Army Pay Department, Late Essex Regiment a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel b) Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (Lieut: W.G.S. Benson. 2/Essex.R.), pitted from Star, remnants of lacquer c) Khedive´s Star 1884-6, generally very fine (3) Estimate £ 800-1,000 Colonel William George Sackville Benson, C.B., the uncle of Commander Geoffrey Dennis St. Quentin Marescaux, born 1861; educated at Harrow; commissioned Second Lieutenant 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment, 1882; Captain attached Army Pay Department, 1890; Paymaster 10.11.1894; advanced Lieutenant-Colonel 16.8.1907; advanced Colonel and Chief Paymaster (C.B. 1918; M.I.D. London Gazette 12.2.1918); retired after serving in the Northern Command, 1919.

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£800