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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 117

The Historically Interesting Group of Four to Lieutenant Colonel W. V. Moul, Cheshire Regiment, Assistant Provost Marshal in Dublin during ´The Troubles´ 1916-17 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Lt. W.V. Moul 2nd Bn Ches.R.); Queen´s South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Major. Ches: Regt); King´s South Africa, two clasps (Maj. Ches. Rgt.); Coronation 1911, very fine or better, with four associated miniature awards, and a hand written diary of events in South Africa, December 1899 to May 1900 (4) Estimate £ 700-800 Lieutenant Colonel William Vincent Moul (1865-1951), born in Kensington, London, and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst; joined the Cheshire Regiment August 1886 and served with the 2 Battalion in Burma 1887-89, acting as Intelligence Officer with a Column sent to protect the jade mines north of Bhamo on the Irrawaddy; served as Adjutant Captain with the 2 Battalion in South Africa 1900-01, including actions at Karee Siding, Vet River (5 and 6 May 1900) and Zand River; served as Assistant Provost Marshal and Asistant Press Censor, Potchefstroom from May 1901 (Brevet of Major and M.I.D. London Gazette 10.9.1901); with the 2 Battalion in India September 1904 until his retirement in October 1906; Second in Command 3 Battalion at the Coronation 1911. In 1916 Moul was employed as an Assistant Provost Marshal in Dublin, with instructions to locate Sir Roger Casement and bring him back to London (M.I.D. London Gazette 30.3.1917). Before his execution Casement is said to have given Moul his ´bejewelled personal pistol.´ After his second retirement, Moul lived in East Looe, Cornwall, until his death in 1951.

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