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Auction: 6007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 412

The Important Boxer Rebellion D.S.O., Great War C.M.G., and ´Allied Intervention´ K.C.B. Group of Sixteen to Lieutenant-General H.C. Holman, late Bengal Lancers, Chief of the British Military Mission to South Russia (a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Knight Companion´s (K.C.B.) set of insignia, Star and neck Badge, silver, silver-gilt, gold appliqué, and enamel, in Garrard, London, case of issue (b) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion´s (C.M.G.) breast Badge, converted for neck-ware, silver-gilt and enamel, in Garrard, London, case of issue (c) The Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with Garrard, London, case of issue (d) India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1889-92 (2nd. Lieut. H.C. Holman. 2nd. Bn. Devon. Regt.) (e) China 1900, no clasps (Captn: H.C. Holman. 16th. Bt. Lcrs:) (f) 1914 Star, with Bar (Bt: Lt: Col: H.C. Holman. 16/Cavalry.) (g) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Maj. Gen. H.C. Holman.) (h) Jubilee Medal 1935 (i) Coronation Medal 1937 (j) France, Legion of Honour, Officer´s breast Badge, Third Republic, gold and enamel, minor enamel damage, with rosette, with Aucoc, Paris, case of issue (k) Russia, Order of St. Vladimir, 4th Class breast Badge, with swords, 35mm, gold and enamel, unclear manufacturer´s mark on reverse, 1908-1917 St. Petersburg kokoshnik mark on swords (l) Russia, Russo-Japanese War Medal 1904-05 (m) France, Order of Agricultural Merit, 3rd Class neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in Lemaitre, Paris, case of issue (n) United States of America, Military Order of the Dragon, China 1900 (Capt. Herbert C. Holman 16th. Bengal Lancers No. 169), with original riband and top bronze ´pagoda´ suspension brooch (o) Royal Humane Society, bronze medal, successful (Major H.C. Holman. Sept. 22nd. 1907), with top riband buckle, in Elkington, London, case of issue, the group nearly extremely fine, mounted as worn except Order of Agricultural Merit, Order of the Dragon, and Royal Humane Society (p) Sword, A Victorian memento of the Royal Military College, a fragment of the blade of an officer´s sword, cut down to 460mm and re-ground, etched with foliate decoration, VR cypher and inscription ´Royal Military College, July 1889, Prize General Proficiency, Gentleman Cadet H.C. Holman´, now fitted with a plain crosspiece and chequered wood grip, in a black leather scabbard with nickel-plated chape and locket, with frog-stud The Group together with the following Official Documents &c: - Commission appointing Herbert Campbell Holman, Gentleman, as 2nd Lieutenant, Land Forces, with effect from 21.9.1889 - Bestowal Documents for the Order of the Bath, K.C.B., dated 11.11.1919; C.B., dated 1.1.1918 - Bestowal Document for the Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., dated 18.2.1915, together with accompanying Enclosure, dated 3.6.1915 - Bestowal Document for the Distinguished Service Order, dated January 1902 - Bestowal Document for the Military Order of the Dragon, Member, dated 28.2.1906, together with accompanying letter of notification, dated 18.4.1901 - Nine Mentioned in Despatches Certificates, dated 14.1.1915; 31.5.1915; 30.11.1915; 30.4.1916; 9.4.1917; 7.11.1917; 7.4.1918; 8.11.1918; and 16.3.1919 - Permission to Wear Documents for Jubilee 1935 and Coronation 1937 - Home Guard Certificate, dated 3.6.1940-18.2.1943 - Royal Humane Society, Bronze Medal Bestowal Document, dated 22.10.1907, ´for having saved life from drowning´ - Unrestricted Permission to Wear Document for the Order of St. Anne, 2nd Class, with Swords, and the Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd Class, with Swords, dated 23.10.1905 - Royal Military College Certificate of Proficiency in ´Tactics, Fortification, Military Topography, and Riding´, dated 17.8.1889 - Copy of Annual Confidence Report on 2nd Lieutenant H.C. Holman, made by Brigadier General G.B. Wolseley, dated 11.5.1891, noting Lieut. Holman as ´an officer of exceptional promise´ - Magazine cutting showing a group photograph of British Officers in the 16th Bengal Lancers, featuring Lt. and Adj. Holman - Official Photograph of King George V with his victorious Generals, 1918, featuring Generals Haigh, Foche, and Holman in the centre of group - Copy of Recommendation for the award of the K.C.M.G. to Major-General H.C. Holman, by General H. Rawlinson, dated 18.3.1919 - Newspaper cutting from the Daily Chronicle, dated 28.8.1919, with article entitled ´Is General Holman the Tsar?´ - Magazine cutting from the Sphere, dated 17.1.1920, with a photograph of the K.C.M.G. investiture of Lieutenant-General Afrikan Bogaefsky by Lieutenant-General Holman - Copy of Letter from General A. Denikin to the Secretary of State for War, dated 26.3.1920, commending General Holman as ´a brave soldier, an honest diplomatist, a faithful ally, and an honourable man´ - Notification of a letter from the Army Council expressing their appreciation on the successful evacuation of the British Mission from Novorossisk, dated 31.3.1920 - Two Letters from the War Office congratulating and expressing delight in the award of the K.C.B. to General Holman, dated 21.4 and 27.4.1920 - Supplement to the London Gazette, dated 22.4.1920, announcing the award of the K.C.B. to Major-General H.C. Holman - Named Ticket of Admission for the Ceremony of the Installation of Knights of the Order of the Bath, Westminster Abbey, 18.5.1920 - Officers Headquarters Fourth Army, Christmas 1948 Card, featuring a photograph of General Holman - Photograph of Lieutenant General H.C. Holman - Newspaper cutting from the Times, dated 28.7.1949, with Lieutenant-General Sir H.C. Holman´s Obituary (lot) Estimate £ 7,000-8,000K.C.B. London Gazette 22.4.1920 C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1918 C.M.G. London Gazette 3.6.1915 D.S.O. London Gazette 10.12.1901 ´Herbert Campbell Holman, Captain, Indian Staff Corps. In recognition of services during operations in China.´ Mentioned in Despatches eleven times London Gazette 9.2.1892; 13.9.1901; 17.2.1915; 22.6.1915; 1.1.1916; 15.6.1916; 15.5.1917; 11.12.1917; 20.5.1918; 20.12.1918; 5.7.1919 Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Campbell Holman, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., (1869-1949). Educated at Dulwich and Sandhurst; Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment 21.9.1889; Promoted Lieutenant 25.3.1891. Transferred to the Indian Staff Corps 3.5.1892, and posted to the 16th Cavalry, later the 16th Bengal Lancers. Lieutenant Holman served in Burma with the Wuntho Expedition, where he was slightly wounded, and Mentioned in Despatches, and as a Staff Officer took part in the operations of the Irrawaddy Column. Promoted Captain, Indian Army 21.9.1900, and served in China with the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the allied suppression of the Boxers, as First Class Officer Interpreter (in Russian and French) and Special Service Officer, graded as D.A.A.G.; was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the D.S.O. Served as Assistant Secretary, Military Department, Government of India 27.5 - 14.8.1901; Staff Captain, Intelligence Department, War Office 29.12.1902 - 20.1.1904; D.A.Q.M.G., General Staff, 21.1.1904 - 28.12.1906. Served as Attaché with the Russian Forces in Manchuria 17.6 - 7.11.1905 during the Russo-Japanese War, and awarded the order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd Class, with Swords. Captain Holman returned to his Regiment at the beginning of 1907; Promoted Major 21.9.1907. Whilst on leave in Switzerland he rescued a drowning man from the dangerous River Are, for which act of bravery he was awarded the Royal Humane Society´s Bronze Medal. He returned to India, served at Army Headquarters 11.3 - 21.10.1910, and from 1.7.1913; At the outbreak of the Great War, Major Holman took up a Special Appointment in France 12.10.1914 - 29.1.1915; and served as Assistant Quartermaster-General 30.1 - 3.11.1915, an appointment which saw him promoted Lieutenant-Colonel 21.9.1915. Appointed Deputy Assistant and Quartermaster-General 4.11.1915 - 31.3.1919, with the temporary ranks of Brigadier-General 4.11.1915 - 12.11.1916 and Major-General 13.11.1916-31.12.1918. Promoted Major-General 1.1.1919. Major-General Holman served as Chief of the British Military Mission to South Russia 22.5.1919 - 15.4.1920, for which work he was appointed K.C.B., and received the Orders of St. Anne and St. Stanislaus 1st Class with Swords. Served in India as Deputy Quartermaster General, 7.2.1921 - 26.12.1922; General Officer Commanding Sind-Rajputana District 1922-24; Mhow District 1924-27. Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel 1926; Retired 1928. During the Second World War Lieutenant-General Holman served in the Home Guard, 3.6.1940-18.2.1943. Lieutenant-General Holman´s sword from Sandhurst was broken the day he was awarded it tent-pegging.

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