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Auction: 22133 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 516

Three: Captain E. S. Lemass, Army Service Corps, who served on the Western Front and in North Russia during the Great War before taking up a long and distinguished legal career, becoming British Judge of the International Court at Tangier and being appointed to the Order of the Nile in later life

1914-15 Star (Lieut. E.S. Lemass. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E.S. Lemass.), medals detached from mounting bar, otherwise good very fine (3)

[Egyptian Order of the Nile 3rd Class] London Gazette20 August 1926.

Edwin Stephen Lemass was born on 26 December 1890 and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Called to the Irish Bar in 1913, during the Great War he served on the Western Front and latterly in North Russia. During that conflict, he was exempted from the Infantry due to being the last remaining son in his family.

Thence appointed to the Ministry of Justice in Egypt, he remained out there for the remainder of his career and during the Second World War was Chairman of the United Forces Welfare Clubs Organisation at Alexandria from 1949-47. Having married Dora Anna Maria, youngest daughter of Rocco Capozzi of Naples, Lemass retired to Tangier and died on 12 April 1970.

It is worth noting that his cousin Sean Lemass would fight during the Easter Rising and later become Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1959-66.

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