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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 167

Nine: Lieutenant-Colonel R.F.H.P. Stuart-French, 11th Hussars
General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine (Lieut. R.H.F.P. Stuart French. 11/H); 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaf, this loose on riband; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, good very fine, mounted court-style as worn, together with the recipient's related miniature awards, lacking M.I.D. Oak Leaf, these also mounted court-style as worn, and the following related items:
- The recipient's Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, named to Major R.F.H.P. Stuart-French, Royal Armoured Corps, and dated 4.4.1946
- Letter from the British Embassy, Paris, authorising the recipient 'to travel to the United Kingdom today in Mr. Winston Churchill's party', dated 17.7.1946
- Portrait photograph of the recipient
- Photograph of the recipient with Colonel J.F.B. Combe, C.B., D.S.O., Colonel of the 11th Hussars, in Berlin, 1945
- 'Desert Rat' cloth insignia (9)

M.I.D. London Gazette 4.4.1946 Maj. R.F.H.P. Stuart-French (26234), Royal Armoured Corps
'In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North-West Europe.'

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Fitzroy Hamilton Pascoe Stuart-French, born 2.12.1903, the only son of Major Pascoe William Grenfell Stuart-French, and the grandson of Major-General William James Stuart; educated at Eton; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, North Somerset Yeomanry, Territorial Army, 17.5.1923; transferred, Second Lieutenant, 11th Hussars, 5.9.1925; promoted Lieutenant, 5.9.1927; appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Bessborough, G.C.M.G., Governor-General of Canada, 27.3.1931; and Aide-de-Camp and Military Secretary to the Rt. Hon. Lord Galway, G.C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., Governor-General of New Zealand, 25.11.1936; promoted Captain, 25.5.1937; served during the Second War with the 11th Hussars in Palestine and Egypt, and in North-West Europe; promoted Major, 5.9.1942; retired on account of disability with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 6.9.1947.

Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart-French married Joy Denbigh-Russell in Sydney, Australia, in August 1940; she was killed after the ship in which they were returning to Ireland following their honeymoon was torpedoed by an enemy submarine off the coast of Ireland, May 1941.

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