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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 716

1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. S. Mitchell. Manch. R.), nearly extremely fine

Victory Medal (Capt. H.F. Cortlandt-Anderson.), extremely fine (2)

Lieutenant-Colonel Spencer Mitchell, born June 1860; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Queen's Own, August 1880; transferred to the Border Regiment, September 1880; promoted Lieutenant, July 1881; appointed Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion, February 1885; resigned, April 1887; on the outbreak of the Great War re-Commissioned as Captain, 17.8.1914, and subsequently attached to the 24th (Oldham) Battalion, Manchester Regiment; promoted Major, 24.3.1915; appointed Commanding Officer of the 20th (5th City) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 20.7.1915; whilst based at Scarborough he was briefly the Commanding Officer of the War-poet Wilfred Owen.

Captain Harry Frederick Cortlandt-Anderson, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel W.C. Cortlandt-Anderson; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 102nd King Edward's Own Grenadiers, 22.2.1915; promoted Lieutenant, 23.12.1915; died 14.2.1917, and is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

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