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Auction: 5019 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 135

A Rare Archangel 1919 Russian Intervention D.S.O., Great War M.C. Group of Six to Major J.C. Blackburn, West Yorkshire Regiment, attached 46th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold appliqué, and enamel (b) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ´Capt. J.C. Blackburn. 2/ West Yorkshire. 27.6.16.´ (c) 1914-15 Star (Lieut. J.C. Blackburn. W.York.R.) (d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major J.C. Blackburn.) (e) Russia, Order of St Anne, 3rd Class breast Badge with Swords, 48mm, silver-gilt and enamel, a contemporary badge of French manufacture, good very fine or better, together with D.S.O. Warrant, three Mention in Despatches certificates, and a rare Russian Order of St. Anne Warrant (6) Estimate £ 3,500-3,800D.S.O. London Gazette 3.2.1920. M.C. London Gazette 14.1.1916. Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 1.1.1916, 8.7.1919, 3.2.1920. Captain John Cecil Blackburn, D.S.O., M.C., West Yorkshire Regiment, born 14.4.1891, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 5.10.1910; Lieutenant 10.10.1912; Captain 21.10.1914. Employed with the West Africa Frontier Force 29.10.1913-22.1.1915. Served in the Great War, attached 46th Battalion Royal Fusiliers in the North Dvina campaign 1919, in Northern Russia.

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