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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 6

The Great War C.M.G., 1918 'Western Front' D.S.O. Group of Seven to Lieutenant-Colonel G.S. Tovey, Royal Field Artillery
a) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion's (C.M.G.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband
b) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar
c) Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (Capt. G.S. Tovey, R.F.A.)
d) King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Capt. G.S. Tovey, R.F.A.)
e) 1914 Star, with Bar (Major G.S. Tovey, R.F.A.)
f) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lt. Col. G.S. Tovey), the Boer War pair with edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise generally good very fine (7)

C.M.G. London Gazette 3.6.1918 Lt.-Col. George Strangways Tovey, D.S.O., R.A.
' For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders.'

D.S.O. London Gazette 14.1.1916 Major George Strangways Tovey, Royal Artillery

Lieutenant-Colonel George Strangways Tovey, C.M.G., D.S.O., born September 1975, the son of Colonel H. Tovey, Royal Engineers, and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, March 1896; promoted Lieutenant, March 1899; served during the Boer War with 65th Battery, Royal Field Artillery; later attached to ‘O’ Section Pom-Poms, and served as Assistant Military Secretary to G.O.C., South Africa (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 10.9.1901); promoted Captain, 20.1.1902; served as Adjutant, Royal Artillery, August 1905 to January 1907; promoted Major, 1.1.1913; appointed Assistant Military Secretary to Lieutenant-General Murray, 18.2.1914; on the outbreak of the Great War posted to 23 Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 29.8.1914, and served during the Great War on the Western Front as a Battery Commander from October 1914 (wounded, awarded the D.S.O., and five times Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazettes 22.6.1915 (for Neuve Chapelle), 1.1.1916, 15.6.1916, 4.1.1917, and 20.5.1918); later in the War served as Brigade Commander in the 19th Divisional Artillery, and as Commanding Officer of 232 Army Artillery Brigade with the 3rd Army. Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 2.2.1917; placed on half pay on account of ill health caused by wounds, 29.4.1920; retired, 21.3.1921; died, 13.1.1943. One of his brothers, John Cronyn Tovey, later became Admiral of the Fleet and C-in-C Home Fleet during World War Two.

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Sale 15001 Notices
The date for the D.S.O. in the Title should read '1915', not '1918'.