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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
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The Great War 'Western Front' D.S.O., 'Privy Purse' M.V.O. Group of Fourteen to Lieutenant-Colonel H.G. Sotheby, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Wounded in Action During the Boer War Near Kroonstad, 1.1.1901, and Commanded the 10th Battalion on the Western Front 1916-18
a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, central obverse medallion slightly depressed
b) The Royal Victorian Order, Member's Fifth Class (M.V.O.) breast Badge, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered '439'
c) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, clasp carriage remodelled for mounting purposes, last date clasp a copy (Lieut. H.G. Sotheby. Arg. & Suth. Highrs.)
d) 1914 Star, with copy Bar, unnamed
e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lt. Col. H.G. Sotheby)
f) Jubilee 1897, silver (H.G. Sotheby.), contemporarily engraved in large serif capitals
g) Coronation 1902, silver
h) Coronation 1911
i) France, Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze star on riband
j) Denmark, Kingdom, Order of the Dannebrog, Knight´s breast Badge, F.VIII.R. (1906-12), 58mm including crown suspension x 27mm, gold and enamel
k) Sweden, Kingdom, Order of Vasa, Knight´s breast Badge, 60mm including crown suspension x 39mm, gold and enamel
l) Norway, Order of St Olav, Knight First Class breast Badge, 68mm including crown and lion suspension x 44mm, gold and enamel
m) Italy, Kingdom, Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Knight´s breast Badge, 39mm, gold and enamel, enamel damage to St. Lazarus cross on last, otherwise nearly extremely fine or better (14)

D.S.O. London Gazette 1.1.1918 Capt. Herbert George Sotheby, Arg and Suth'd Highrs, Spec. Res.
'For distinguished service in the Field.'

M.V.O. V Class London Gazette 22.6.1914 Herbert George Sotheby, Esq., of the Private Secretary's Office, Buckingham Palace

M.I.D. London Gazette 21.12.1917 Sotheby, Maj. (actg. Lt.-Col.) H.G., M.V.O. (Spec. Res.), Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

M.I.D. London Gazette 28.12.1918 Sotheby, Maj. (T./Lt.-Col.) H.G., M.V.O., D.S.O., 4th Bn., Comdg. 10th Bn., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

M.I.D. London Gazette 9.7.1919 Sotheby, Maj. (T./Lt.-Col.) H.G., D.S.O., M.V.O., 4th Bn. (Comdg. 10th Bn.), Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert George Sotheby, D.S.O., M.V.O., (1871-1954), Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 4th (Militia) Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 6.1.1900; promoted Lieutenant, 12.12.1900; served in South Africa as Station Staff Officer, and Railway Staff Officer; slightly wounded near Kroonstad, 1.1.1901; promoted Captain, 4.2.1902; served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 4th Battalion from 7.10.1914, and present at the First Battle of Ypres, 1914; wounded in the right leg, 9.11.1914, and had a shrapnel bullet removed from his right tibia, 19.11.1914; promoted Major, 20.2.1916, and commanded the 10th Battalion at the Battle of the Somme, at Longueval, July 1916, and Bapaume, October 1916; the Battle of Arras, April to May 1917; the Battle of Passchendaele, October 1917; the Battle of Amiens, August 1918; the Battle of Cambrai, at St. Quentin, September to October 1918; and the Battle of the River Selle, October 1918; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 15.12.1916; resigned, 1.7.1921.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sotheby served as a Clerk in the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace, from June 1893, and accompanied King Edward VII on his Royal Visits to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, April to May 1908; and to Italy, April 1909; awarded the Royal Victorian Order in 1914. In later life he served as Sherriff and a Deputy-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. He was the author of the 10th Battalion's History, and his Boer War diary is in the National Library of Scotland.

Provenance: Spink Medal Quarterly, June 1995

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