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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 120

A Great War O.B.E. Group of Five to Lieutenant Colonel R. Marriott-Dodington, Commanding West Somerset Yeomanry Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer's Badge (O.B.E.), Military Divison, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1919); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. R. Marriot-Dodington) M.I.D. Oakleaves; Territorial War Medal (Lt. Col. R. Marriot-Dodington W. Som. Yeo.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1919), mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (5) Estimate £ 320-350 O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Lieutenant Colonel Roger Marriot-Dodington, O.B.E., T.D., D.L., J.P., (1866-1925), born at Horsington House, near Templecoombe; educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge; served in the Somerset Light Infantry (Militia) and was gazetted with the Honorary rank of Captain, 1900; Commanding Officer West Somerset Yeomanry, 1911-1916; and entered the French Theatre of War in the late autumn of 1916, and was employed on the Staff, 1st Corps (Mentioned in Despatches)

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