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Auction: 6017 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 122

Emotive Family Group A Great War ´Ypres Salient´ D.S.C. Group of Four to Captain D. Leigh Aman, Royal Marine Artillery Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued (Hallmarks for London 1918); 1914-15 Star (Capt. D.L. Aman, R.M.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Maj D.L. Aman. R.M.A.), extremely fine, with five associated miniature awards, including Jubilee 1935, and two cap badges Four: Mrs. O.T. Leigh Aman, British War and Victory Medals (O.L. Aman); French Red Cross, silver oval badge, reverse engraved ´O. Aman. 10054 1915-1917´, with top riband bar, and silver olive-branches on riband; French Reconnaissance Medal, 3rd Class, bronze, extremely fine, the eight Leigh Aman family medals mounted and framed, together with three associated miniature awards, British War and French Victory Medal, with Red Cross olive-branches on riband; French Reconnaissance Medal, 2nd Class, silver, with blue enamel star on riband The Medals offered with the following Books, photographs &c: - Two Wounds Certificates for Captain G.P. Leigh Aman, dated 27.5.1941 (Wounded); and 21.12.1941 (Injured) - Mounted and Framed Photograph of Captain D. Leigh Aman, April 1905 - Framed and glazed photograph of Pelham Leigh Aman, c.1925 - Baby´s Souvenir Scrapbook, charting the early life of Pelham Leigh Aman, containing many original letters, photographs, and newspaper cuttings - A Pleasure of Cities by Doone Beal, dedicated ´For Pelham, without whose appreciation of the foreign scene, brilliant navigation, and almost untiring patience I would never have got there.´ A Battle of the Somme First Day Casualty Pair to Second Lieutenant A.J. Beal, York and Lancaster Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A.J. Beal.), extremely fine, in named card case of issue, together with a portrait photograph of the recipient and a poignant letter written the night before Beal was killed going over the top. (10) Estimate £ 2,500-3,000Captain Dudley Leigh Aman, 1st Baron Marley, D.S.C. (1884-1952), educated at Marlborough and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Marine Artillery 1.1.1902; Lieutenant 1.1.1903; served in the Home and Mediterranean Fleets, and on the staff of Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, and in H.M.S. Vernon; passed into the Army Staff College, Camberley, 1912; Captain 1.1.1913; took an Artillery Command in France during the Great War; commanded 2 sections of A.A. guns in the Ypres Salient 3.5.1915; commanded C-Battery (Wounded); later served in H.M.S. Tiger; retired 1920. After the War Captain Leigh Aman stood as the Labour Party Candidate for East Hampshire in the General Elections of 1922 and 1924; for Thanet in 1924; and for Faversham in 1928 and 1929, losing on each occasion. Created 1st Baron Marley 1930; Lord-in-Waiting to the King and Under Secretary of State for War 1930-31; Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire 1930-50. Octable Turquet Leigh Aman, Baroness Marley (1890-1969), daughter of the late Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid M.P., the wife of Captain D. Leigh Aman, married 1910, and they had one son, Major the Hon. (Godfrey) Pelham Leigh Aman (1913-1990), who served with the Royal Marines in the Second World War, and was wounded during the evacuation of Crete; succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Marley 1952, and married secondly Catherine Doone Beal in 1956. Second Lieutenant Arnold James Beal, served with ´B´ Company, 12th Battalion (Sheffield), York and Lancaster Regiment; Killed in Action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme 1.7.1916. ´This is a letter to all of you, although I pray that there never be need for you to receive it. You see we are about to attack, part of the Great Advance...Death must come, and can you conceive a finer death...By God´s Grace you still have Frank, and my two sweet little sisters...I pray that England is on the Lord´s side, if so I die content and happy...By God´s Grace we shall all meet again. Goodbye. Ever your loving son, Arnie.´ (the last letter written by Second Lieutenant Beal to his parents, 29.6.1916, refers). He is buried in the Queen´s Cemetery, Puisieux, Northern France. Second Lieutenant A.J. Beal´s younger brother, Second Lieutenant Frank Angwyn Beal, survived the War, and had a daughter, Catherine Doone Beal, who in 1956 married Pelham Leigh Aman, 2nd Baron Marley.

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