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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 406

(x) The mounted group of six miniature dress medals worn by Major Sir Henty Clayden, South African Engineers

Knight Bachelor's Badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, good very fine (6)


Henry John Clayden was born on 26 April 1904 and educated at Charterhouse and Brasenose College, Oxford. Called to the Bar in 1927, he practised in Johannesburg in the 1930s. Having then seen active service as a Major in the South African Engineers in Kenya, Abyssinia and Egypt in the last war, Clayden was appointed a Judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court in 1946.

Knighted in June 1958, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Federation in 1960 and in 1962 presided over the Accident Commission following the death of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammerskjold. Made a Privy Councillor in 1963, Clayden retired to Walton Street, London and died on 11 July 1986; sold with copied research and photograph of the recipient.


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