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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 501

Miniature Awards: The G.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G. Group of Thirteen Attributed to Air Chief Marshal Sir J.M. Steel, Royal Air Force, Late Royal Navy
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Knight Grand Cross (G.C.B.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Knight Commander's (K.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion's (C.M.G.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Orange Free State, Rel. of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek, South Africa 1902; Africa General Service 1902-56, E.VII.R., one clasp, Gambia; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Russia, Imperial, Order of St. Stanislas, Military Division, Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage to motto on C.M.G., contact marks to QSA, generally very fine, mounted as worn with post-1937 riband for the K.B.E., and housed in a Spink, London, case (13)

G.C.B. London Gazette 11.5.1937 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Miles Steel, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., Royal Air Force.

K.C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1935 Air Marshal Sir John Miles Steel, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., Royal Air Force.

C.B. London Gazette 3.6.1922 Air Commodore John Miles Steel, C.M.G., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.

K.B.E. London Gazette 3.7.1926 Air Vice-Marshal John Miles Steel, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.

C.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1919 Col. (A./Br.-Gen.) John Miles Steel, Royal Air Force
'In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with the War.'

C.M.G. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Col. (A./Brig.-Genl.) John Miles Steel, C.B.E., Royal Air Force
'In recognition of distinguished services rendered during the War.'

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Miles Steel, G.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., (1877-1965), the son of Colonel J.P. Steel, Royal Engineers; educated at H.M.S. Britannia; Naval Cadet, 1892; Commissioned Sub-Lieutenant, 1897; served during the Second Boer War with the Naval Brigade, and took part in the Relief of Ladysmith and subsequent operations (wounded at Elandslaagte); served in the Gambia River Expedition (Mentioned in Despatches); promoted Commander, 1912; served during the Great War in the Grand Fleet, and present at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5-1.6.1916 as Second in Command, H.M.S. Conqueror (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 15.9.1916 and awarded the Russian Order of St. Stanislas); promoted Captain, 1916; appointed Royal Naval Air Service; served as Director of Air Division, Admiralty, 1918; transferred to the Royal Air Force, as Air Commodore, 1919; served as Member of the Air Council and Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Ministry, 1923-26; promoted Air Vice Marshal, 1925; served as Air Officer Commanding Wessex Bombing Area, 1926-31; Air Officer Commanding Royal Air Force in India, 1931-35; promoted Air Marshal, 1932; appointed Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Air Defence of Great Britain, 1935; promoted Air Chief Marshal, 1936; retired, 1937; served during the Second World War as Air Officer Commanding Reserve Command, 1939-40, and as Controller-General of Economy, Air Ministry, 1941-45.

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