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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 407

(x) The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Colonel J. E. Marnham, C.M.G., M.C., Royal Artillery, who later served with the Foreign Office

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion's badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.VI.R.; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Territorial, with second 'G.VI.R.' and third 'E.II.R.' Awards Bars, mounted as worn, good very fine (8)


PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's; sold with catalogue extract, circa 1985.

John Ewart Marnham was born in Hampstead on 24 January 1916 and educated at Mill Hill and Jesus College, Cambridge. An Assistant Principal in the Colonial Office at the start of the Second World War, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery. Advanced to Major and awarded the M.C. and a 'mention' (London Gazette 22 March 1945, refers), he commanded 353 (London) Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1954-57 (C.M.G.). Retiring from the Army, Marnham was appointed to Consul-General at Johannesburg (1967-70), British Representative to the West Indies (1970-73) and Ambassador to Tunisia (1973-75). He died on 28 December 1985; sold with copied research.


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Sold for
£80