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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 121

A Colonial Office O.B.E. Group of Five to Captain E. B. Leese, Late East Yorkshire Regiment, and 11th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer's Badge (O.B.E.), Civil Division, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1929); Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (4417. Pte. E. B Leese, 33rd Coy 11th Impl: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals, campaign medals mounted as worn, extremely fine, with related group of five miniature awards, a pair of East Yorks collar badges and two colonial bullion collar patches (10) Estimate £ 240-280 O.B.E London Gazette 3.6.1930 'For his services as a Travelling Commissioner in Gambia, whilst employed by the Colonial Office' Captain Ernest Benjamin Leese, O.B.E., born Faversham, Kent; joined the Imperial Yeomanry 1900, served with the Regiment in South Africa 1900-01, and was present at the actions at Buddulphsburg and Wittebergen; discharged 1901; 2nd Lieutenant 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 1902; Regimental Instructor of Musketry 1903; Lieutenant 1903; Captain 1905; seconded for service under Colonial Office, appointed to West African Field Force, 1905; Company Commander, Gold Coast Regiment 1908; Special Reserve of Officers 1909; Private Secretary and Aide de Camp to the Governor of the Gold Coast 1910-1911 on special service with the Gold Coast Regiment throughout the Great War, and in the Cameroons Expeditionary Force, 1915-16.

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