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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 593

(x) An inter-war District Officer's O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. L. Bruton, late Uganda Volunteer Rifles

A talented cricketer, he turned out for Gloucestershire as a batsman in the early 1920s

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.), Civil Division, 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1934; British War Medal 1914-20 (128 Pte. C. L. Bruton, Uganda V.R.); War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals and a Coronation 1937 commemorative medallion, silver, in its (damaged) Royal Mint case of issue, the second a little polished but otherwise very fine or better (11)

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1935.

Charles Lamb Bruton was born at Wolton, Gloucestershire on 6 April 1890 and was educated at Radley and Keble College, Oxford. A noted cricketer - he played for Radley's Cricket XI for three years - he would later turn out for Gloucestershire as a right-hand batsman in 1922

Following his graduation, Bruton served as Private Secretary to the Bishop of Stepney (1913-14), prior to making his way to Uganda to take up the post of Assistant District Commissioner; it was in this capacity that he also served as a soldier in the Uganda Volunteer Rifles in the Great War.

Having attained the post of District Commissioner in 1924, and been awarded the O.B.E., he was appointed Provincial Commissioner, Eastern Province, in 1936 and served as Resident Commissioner of Swaziland 1937-42; he was also appointed a Local Lieutenant-Colonel in the same period.

Bruton's final appointment was as Commissioner of the East African Refugee Administration 1942-47 and he retired to Oxfordshire in the latter year. He died at Henley-on-Thames on 29 March 1969; sold with brief copied research.


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