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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 81

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col. A. A. Corder.), minor edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine

[C.M.G.] London Gazette 3 June 1916.

[O.B.E.] London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Arthur Annerley Corder was born on 22 November 1856 at King's Norton, Worcestershire, the son of the late James Corder, Barrister-at-law. Educated at the Proprietary and King Edward Schools, Birmingham, he was appointed Captain to the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Edinburgh Artillery (Militia) in 1886, promoted Major in 1895, and was attached to the Army Ordnance Department from 1900. Placed on the Reserve of Officers in 1901, he was appointed Major in 1914 and served during the Gallipoli Campaign at Suvla Bay from 9 July 1915. Here Corder was placed in charge of the reserve ammunition for IX Corps and had responsibility - in conjunction with the P.M.L.O. - for the sorting of this reserve of ammunition in convenient localities near the beach (Army Order No. 1., Brigadier General Reed, 3 August 1915, refers). He later served at Headquarters to 11th Division.

Four times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 13 July 1916, 1 December 1916, 16 January 1918 & 22 January 1919, refer), Corder was decorated with the C.M.G. and O.B.E. for services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt. However the war had a significant impact upon the Corder family and resulted in the death of his second and only surviving son, Lieutenant Hugh Gerald Annerly Corder, who had survived the retreat from Mons and a shrapnel wound on 2 November 1914 but was killed in action on 9 May 1915 gallantly leading men of the 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment at Richebourg L'Avoue. Corder survived the war and retired to Glendoone, Havant, Hampshire, from where he claimed his son's medals; sold with copied research and MIC.


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