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Auction: 6007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 418

A Great War ´Western Front´ D.S.O., M.C., Group of Five to Lieutenant-Colonel H. Stewart, Royal Army Medical Corps, Killed in Action, April 1918 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold applique, and enamel, enamel chip to obverse lower arm of cross; Military Cross, G.V.R., unamed; 1914 Star (Capt: H. Stewart. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lt. Col. H. Stewart.), otherwise extremely fine, with Great War bronze Memorial Plaque, ´Hugh Stewart´ (6) Estimate £ 1,800-2,000D.S.O. London Gazette 4.6.1917 Major (Temp. Lt. Col.) Hugh Stewart M.C., M.B., R.A.M.C. M.C. London Gazette 1.1.1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Stewart D.S.O., M.C., M.B., B. Ch., B.A.O, born in Kilkenny Ireland, 1881; qualified as a Medical Practioner 1905; Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps, 31.7.1905; Captain 31.1.1909 (Mentioned in Despatches 9.12.1914); Major 15.10.1915; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel 9.11.1915 (Mentioned in Despatches 1.1.1916, 15.6.1916, 4.1.1917, 29.5.1917); killed in action on the Western Front near Hazebrook, whilst attached to 94th Field Ambulance, 12.4.1918, and is buried in Borre Churchyard, France.

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