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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 478

The mounted M.C. group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel The Reverend A. R. Clark, 13th Battalion (Lancashire), Parachute Regiment, late Trooper, Royal Horse Guards, latterly a Military Knight of Windsor

Military Cross, G.VI.R.; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1977; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., Regular Army, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (7)

M.C. London Gazette 21 December 1944. An award for his command of 'C' Company in August 1944 at Pont L'Eveque.

Alfred Reeves Clark was born on 9 March 1906 and initially served in the Royal Horse Guards as a Trooper from 1925 and remained with the Household Cavalry until 1937, when transferred to the Queen's Bays. Selected for Officer Training, he was made 2nd Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment and thence volunteered for Parachute training, which saw him jump into Normandy on the night of 5 June. Having shared in the famous action at Ranville, Clark was severely wounded in Holland the next year and partially blinded. Returned to his post, he went to assist in parachute training and afterwards went to join the Lincolnshire Regiment in Egypt when he found an interest in the church. He left the Army in 1953 and took Holy Orders, initially on missionary work in Lahore and then as a Chaplain at Liverpool Prison. He was made the first Supernumerary Military Knight of Windsor, a post he held for some sixteen years. Clark died in January 1992; sold together with his two pressed card identity tags, these named '162409 A R Clark CE', a Royal Tournament silver Medal, this engraved '1927 Mounted Team Competition The Life Guards (1st and 2nd) Tpr. A. L. Clarke [sic]', besides two photographs of the recipient, one of these with the Prince of Wales.

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