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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 46

The Great War C.B.E., D.S.O., O.B.E., Group of Eight to Lieutenant Colonel C. F. Bell, Royal Army Service Corps a) Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Commander´s (C.B.E.), neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel b) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse centre loose c) Order of British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer´s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for 1919) d) 1914 Star, with Bar (Lieut-Col C.F. Bell C.B.E. D.S.O. O.B.E.), naming erased and subsequently engraved e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major C.F. Bell) f) Jubilee 1935 g) Coronation 1937, good very fine (8) Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 C.B.E. London Gazette 30.3.1920 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Francis Bell. D.S.O., O.B.E. Director of Road Transport, Ministry of Food. For special work in connection with the Railway Strike 1919 D.S.O. London Gazette 4.6.1917 Temp. Maj. Charles Francis Bell, A.S.C. O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Bell, T./Maj. Charles Francis, D.S.O., R.A.S.C. M.I.D. London Gazette 29.5.1917 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Francis Bell C.B.E., D.S.O., O.B.E., born 1882, Norley Hall, Cheshire; educated at Greenbank School, Liverpool and at Sedbergh, Yorkshire; Second Lieutenant 2nd Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment, 1901; attached General Hallam-Parr´s Staff June 1902; Commanded D Company North Western District Regular Mounted Infantry, July - October 1902; resigned commission 1908; re-engaged Second Lieutenant Royal Army Service Corps, 7.9.1914; served in the Great War on the Western Front, took part in the retreat from Antwerp and the first battle of Ypres; Lieutenant 3.10.1914; Captain 1.12.1914; Major 30.10.1915; Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General Mobilization 1.8.1918; Temporary Lieutenant Colonel (Assistant Quarter Master General) 14.1.1919.

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