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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 495

A very fine Great War M.C. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Lord H. Kennedy, Coldstream Guards

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. Lord H. Kennedy. C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. Lord H. Kennedy.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; British War and Victory Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Lord. H. Kennedy (M.C.)), good very fine (9)

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Hugh Kennedy was born on 19 January 1895, son of Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa and was educated at Horton School. During the Great War he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards from the Ayrshire Yeomanry on 6 August 1915. He served in France with No. 3 Company, 1st Battalion from 3 October 1915, having been made Lieutenant on 27 August 1915. Kennedy ended the Great War with a 'mention' (London Gazette 22 May 1917, refers) to go with his Military Cross. His Medals were issued to him at Culzean Castle, Ayr.

By the outbreak of the Second World War, Kennedy was farming in East Africa and he returned to the fold and was made Captain on 22 May 1940, Major on 12 November 1942 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 12 July 1945. He clearly also served in a Civil capacity during the Mau Mau Operations in Kenya, before appointment as a Magistrate and also being the Presiding Officer for the Nanyuki District during 1956 election. Returned to England, he died in Surrey on 27 April 1970; sold together with copied research including images of the recipient.

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Sold for
£2,100

Starting price
£1400