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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 198

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel C. S. W. Sabine, 5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment and Major, Army Dental Corps

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these privately engraved ‘Lt. Col. C. S. W. Sabine (7584) W. Yorks.’; Coronation 1937 (Lt. Col. C. S. W. Sabine, 5 W. Yorks.) privately engraved; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with three ‘G.VI.R.’ clasps, decoration reverse impressed in small figures, ‘1939’ and engraved, ‘Lieut. Colonel C. S. W. Sabine, 5th Bn. The West Yorkshire Regt.’; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Charles S. W. Sabine) mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (6)

Ex-Tony Sabell Collection, 2013.

Charles Shirley Wilmshurst Sabine was born in Birkenhead on 11 September 1900. He was educated in Yorkshire and qualified as a Dental Surgeon at Leeds University in 1923 where he was a member of the O.T.C. He was subsequently in practice in Harrogate and joined the 5th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 31 July 1920. On 5 June 1936 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and with the onset of war he transferred to the Army Dental Corps, serving with the B.E.F. in France and later commanded the A.D.C. School of Instruction at Aldershot. After the war he initially returned to his practice in Harrogate but soon moved to Eastbourne where he was an active member of the Royal Observer Corps and Army Cadet Force. Awarded three clasps to the Efficiency Decoration in 1950 (London Gazette 4 July 1950, refers), he retired from the T.A. with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1956 and died in Eastbourne on 17 November 1980; sold with birth and death certificates and copied research, including several copied photographs of the recipient.

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