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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 305

A silver presentation box given to Lieutenant O. H. Little, Royal Engineers

Silver box, 195mm x 140mm x 70mm, the lid engraved with Royal Engineers Badge and with the inscription 'To Lieut. O. H. Little RE from Posh Castle on the occasion of his marriage 3rd July 1919' and additionally engraved with the signatures of 13 friends and comrades, by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd, 112 Regent Street, hallmarked, very fine

Otway Henry Little served with the Royal Engineers during the Great War and was taken Prisoner of War on 23 April 1916 likely at the Fall of Kut. His 1914-15 Star Trio was sent to him at the Geological Survey of Egypt, Cairo. Having published The Geography and Geology of Makalla (South Arabia) in 1925, Little was made O.B.E. as Director of the Geological Survey, for scientific services (London Gazette 3 March 1944, refers).

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£160

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£140