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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 258

(x) 1914 Star (Major R. S. Hutchison. A.P.D.), good very fine

R. S. Hutchison served as a Major with the Army Pay Department as Assistant to the Paymaster in Chief, Headquarters Amiens in France from 10 August 1914. Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, the above award represents his sole entitlement for the Great War. He is also recorded as having served on the Dongola expedition, 1896 (Medal) and having been awarded the C.B.E..

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Sale 19001 Notices
C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. Robert Schlesinger Hutchison was born in Colombo, Ceylon on 1 June 1869. He was first commissioned in the North Staffordshire Regiment in December 1888. Having also been 'mentioned' on 22 September 1915 - this 1914 Star was claimed by the recipient. Having died in Singapore on 14 September 1921, no other Great War awards were claimed.