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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 164

A Good Great War D.S.O., C.M.G. Group of Seven to Brigadier General A.C.Roberts, Royal Fusiliers
Order of St. Michael and St. George, Commander's (C.M.G.) breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with integral riband buckle, obverse centre loose; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Queen's South Africa, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Capt: A.C. Roberts , Rl. Fus.); 1914 Star (Major A.C. Roberts. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Brig. Gen. A.C. Roberts); Coronation 1911,good very fine or better (7)


C.M.G. London Gazette 4.5.1917 Lieutenant Colonel (temporary Brigadier General), Royal Fusiliers.
D.S.O. London Gazette 14.1.1916 Major.
M.I.D. four times for gallant and distinguished services in the field.

Brigadier General Arthur Colin Roberts, C.M.G., D.S.O., was employed with the West African Frontier Force from 1902 to May 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from August 1914; saw action on the Aisne and led a bayonet attack at Armentieres; six months later was given command of a Battalion, with which he proceeded to Salonika; was invalided to London, and died 17.5.1917.

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