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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 213

Four: Colonel E. G. Curtis [C.M.G.], Northamptonshire Regiment India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Lieut. E.G. Curtis. 1st. Bn. Bedford Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. E.G. Curtis North´n R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Col. E.G. Curtis.), lacquered, extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 400-500 C.M.G. London Gazette 3.6.1916 Lt.-Col. Edward George Curtis, R. of O., North´n R., T.F. ´For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Field.´ Colonel Edward George Curtis, C.M.G., born November 1868, the son of Major-General Reginald Curtis, Royal Artillery; educated at Westminster School, Cheltenham College, and R.M.C. Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Bedfordshire Regiment, August 1888; Lieutenant, August 1890; served with the Chitral Relief Force under Sir Robert Low in 1895 with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, and present at the storming of the Malakand Pass and the engagement near Khar; Captain, September 1896; appointed Adjutant, 4th Volunteer Battalion, 26.1.1901; Major, 2.5.1908; Lieutenant-Colonel, 6.8.1914; Commanded the 4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment during the Great War, and served with it at Gallipoli, 1915; and in Egypt with the British Expeditionary Force, 1916-19; Four times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 13.7.1916, 28.11.1917, 11.6.1918, and 5.6.1919). Colonel Curtis died in March 1923.

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