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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 469

The mounted C.B., C.M.G. group of six miniature dress medals worn by Brigadier-General E. C. F. Gillespie, Deputy Director Supplies and Transport, 3rd and 4th Armies, late Assistant Director Supplies and Transport, Cavalry Corps, who was five times 'mentioned' during the Great War

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914 Star, clasp, British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; France, Republic, Legion of Honour, Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted as worn, in a fitted red leather case, reverse of this last central medallion, otherwise good very fine (6)

C.B. London Gazette18 February 1915.

C.M.G. London Gazette 1. January 1918.

Legion of Honour London Gazette 17 March 1920.

Ernest Carden Freeth Gillespie was born on 20 May 1871 and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 19 March 1890 with the Leinster Regiment he later transferred to the Army Service Corps with the rank of Captain on 1 April 1897. Further advanced Major on 1 October 1903 he was serving as a Lieutenant-Colonel by 1912, just prior to the Great War.

Entering the war with the Army Service Corps on 18 August 1914 he received his first 'mention' only two months later on 19 October. Serving as Assistant Director Supplies and Transport for the Cavalry Corps between 1915-16. Promoted Colonel in 1916 Gillespie was then Deputy Director Supplies and Transport for the 3rd and 4th Armies from 1916, being promoted Brigadier-General the next year. To go with his promotion came a raft of 'mentions' with two in 1917 and a further two in 1918.

After the war he was given the appointment as Director Supplies and Transport with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force between 1919-20. Leaving this appointment for Britain in 1920 he served as Assistant Director Supplies and Transport with Scottish Command until 1921 when he retired; sold together with copied research comprising a picture, medal roll and M.I.C. as well as extracts from the London Gazette and Who Was Who.

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Sold for
£260

Starting price
£80