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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 184

(x) Seven: Captain C.E.G. Leveson-Gower, Somerset Light Infantry, Sometime Comptroller of the Household of Lord Grey, Governor General of Canada; and Assistant Military Attaché to Lord Derby, Ambassador to Paris
Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, clasps all tailor's copies (Lieut. C.E.G. Leveson-Gower), contemporarily unofficially impressed in upright serif capitals; 1914 Star (Capt: C. Leveson-Gower.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. Leveson-Gower.); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, 2nd type, Knight´s breast Badge, 66mm including crown suspension x 41mm, silver and enamel, Bishop with red robes, silver marks on suspension ring, eagles in one angle detached but present; Greece, Kingdom, Order of the Redeemer, 2nd type, Knight´s breast Badge, 55mm including crown suspension x 34mm, silver and enamel, unmarked; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier's breast Badge, 57mm including wreath suspension x 43mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, poincon mark to base of wreath, generally very fine or better (7)

Serbia, Order of St. Sava, Fifth Class London Gazette 9.3.1917 Temporary Captain Clement Leveson-Gower, General List
'For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.'

Greece, Order of the Redeemer, Fifth Class London Gazette 9.11.1918 Temporary Captain Clement Edward Gresham Leveson-Gower, Special List
'For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.'

France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier London Gazette 11.3.1919 Temporary Captain Clement Edward Gresham Leveson-Gower, Special List
'For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.'

Captain Clement Edward Gresham Leveson-Gower, born Titsey, Surrey, December 1876, the son of Granville Leveson-Gower, M.P., and the younger brother of Henry Leveson-Gower, the future captain of the Surrey and England cricket teams; educated at Winchester College; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Sussex Regiment, 14.3.1900; transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry, 13.10.1900, and served with them during the Boer War, 1901-02; resigned his Commission on account of ill-health, 11.10.1902; appointed Comptroller of the Household of His Excellency Lord Grey, Governor General of Canada, 1905; on the outbreak of the Great War appointed temporary Captain, and served on the Western Front as Assistant Military Landing Officer from 3.10.1914; later in the War acted as an interpreter in Corfu aiding expatriated Serbians; appointed Assistant Military Attaché to Lord Derby, British Ambassador to Paris, 20.11.1918; resigned his Commission, 31.5.1919; died, June 1939.

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