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Auction: 22003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 444

A Great War M.B.E., M.C. group of six awarded to Captain J. E. Savage, Australian Imperial Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st Type, Member's (M.B.E.) Military Division breast Badge, silver; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (651 W.O. (Cl.1) J. E. Savage, 3/A.S.C. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (Captain J. E. Savage. A.I.F.); Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (W.O. (II) J. E. Savage M.B.E. M.C. Instl. Staff 3rd M.D.), good very fine (6)

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

James Edmund Savage was born at Milltown, Ballycastle, County Antrim in 1879 and served some sixteen years in the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He was serving on the Staff in Australia upon the outbreak of the Great War and he soon found himself made a Warrant Officer, whilst living at Toorak, Melbourne. Serving with the 1st Divisional Train, he was commissioned Lieutenant on 19 April 1915, he served on Gallipoli during the summer of that year, before seeing further service in Egypt and on the Western Front. He suffered with appendicitis and insomnia, this latter the result of his being '....on the beach at Gallipoli from May to December and constantly shelled.'

By the end of the Great War he had earned an M.B.E. and an M.C. for his troubles and in the early 1920s was serving at Rabaul.

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Starting price
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