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Auction: 6017 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 116

A Great War C.B., C.M.G. Group of Seven to Brigadier-General F. Potts, Royal Artillery, Who Commanded 37th Division Royal Artillery From 1916, and was Mentioned in Despatches on Seven Occasions The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor white enamel damage; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion´s (C.M.G.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage; 1914 Star, with later slide Bar (Lt: Col: F. Potts. R.F.A.); British War Medal, naming erased; Victory Medal, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Brig. Gen. F. Potts.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; very fine, with portrait photograph (7) Estimate £ 600-800Brigadier-General Frederick Potts, C.B., C.M.G., (1866-1945); Lieutenant Royal Artillery, 1885; served in operations in Zululand 1888; Adjutant Volunteers 1.1.1894-28.10.1894; Captain 30.6.1895; Major 31.10.1900; Lieutenant-Colonel 20.11.1912; served during the Great War on the Western Front, October 1914-11.11.1918; Officer in Command 9th Brigade Royal Artillery, October 1914-16.9.1915; Brigadier-General, Commander Royal Artillery 37th Division, from 17.9.1916 (C.B. 1918; C.M.G. 1915; Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 17.2.1915; 22.6.1915; 15.6.1916; 4.1.1917; 11.12.1917; 20.5.1918 and 20.12.1918).

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