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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 723

(x) A 'War Office' M.V.O., Volunteer Decoration group of four awarded to Honorary Major T. H. Wyatt, 37th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps, who also worked as a Senior Principle with the War Office and was one of the first recipients of the I.S.O. in that role and one of the earliest recipient of the V.D.

Jubilee 1897 (Thomas Henry Wyatt. War. Office August 1857.); The Royal Victorian Order, Member's (M.V.O.) breast Badge; Imperial Service Order, E.VII.R.; Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, V.R., silver, hallmarks for London 1892, mounted court style for wear, some contact wear to the first and enamel damage to the second, overall very fine (4)

M.V.O. London Gazette 22 August 1902.

V.D. London Gazette December 1892.

Imperial Service Order London Gazette 31 March 1903.

Thomas Henry Wyatt was born at St Giles, London on 18 October 1841, son of Thomas and Arabella Wyatt. His father was President of the Royal Institute of Architects and is commemorated with a blue plaque at their home, 77 Great Russell Street. His works include Knightsbridge barracks and the Stockwell fever hospital. The younger Wyatt was educated at King's College, London and entered the War Office while it was still de-facto ruled by the Duke of Cambridge.

Appointed a Temporary Clerk with the Quartermaster-General's Office in June 1859 he was established as a Clerk Proper in January 1862. He joined the the 37th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps quite some time later on 31 May 1873 as their Quartermaster, a role he served in some time before being promoted Captain on 15 May 1878. The 37th Rifle Corps was retitled the 19th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps and it was from this unit that Wyatt was discharged with the rank of Honorary Major on 22 August 1883.

Appointed Confidential Clerk to the Quartermaster General from May 1888, a post he held until March 1893, while he held it he was also promoted to Senior Clerk in January 1892. That same year he was awarded the V.D., that also being the year that the award was instituted. Given the appointment of Acting Principal in the Quartermaster-General's Branch in January 1900, in June of the same year Wyatt also became Secretary General of the Army Railway Council. In these posts he became a Member of the Royal Victorian Order on 22 August 1902 for his part in the Coronation of Edward VII and the next year received one of the first Imperial Service Orders. He finally retired on 1 April 1903 and died at Weston Park, Basingstoke on 22 September 1920; sold together with copied London Gazette entries, Obituaries, Who was Who entries and the War Office list 1919.

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