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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 233

A Scarce and Interesting C.B., Early 1915 ´Western Front´ D.S.O. Group of Ten to Major General J.J.B. Tapley, Late Mirafai, Egyptian Army, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Principal Veterinary Officer During the Darfur Expedition 1916, Later Director-General, Army Veterinary Service a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel b) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar c) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Civ: Vet: Surg: J.J.B. Tapley. A.V.C.) d) 1914 Star, with bar (Capt: J.J.B. Tapley. A.V.C.) e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Bt. Lt. Col. J.J.B. Tapley) f) Jubilee 1935 g) Coronation 1937 h) Egypt, Order of the Nile, Third Class neck Badge, 90mm including crown suspension x 65mm, silver and enamel i) Khedive´s Sudan 1910-22, one clasp, Darfur 1916, unnamed as issued, generally nearly extremely fine, with Army Veterinary Corps Cap Badge (10) Estimate £ 2,800-3,200C.B. London Gazette 3.6.1935 Major-General James John Bonifant Tapley, D.S.O., late Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Director General, Army Veterinary Services, The War Office. D.S.O. London Gazette 23.6.1915 Captain J.J.B. Tapley, Army Veterinary Corps. Major-General James John Bonifant Tapley, C.B., D.S.O. (1877-1958), MRCVS 1899; served as Civilian Veterinary Surgeon, attached Army Veterinary Corps in South Africa, September 1899-May 1902; Commissioned Lieutenant Army Veterinary Corps, 16.5.1903 and returned to South Africa to take command of No. 9 Section Army Veterinary Service, Pretoria; Captain 16.5.1908; seconded to the Egyptian Army 9.11.1911-4.8.1914; served during the Great War on the Western Front 14.8-7.12.1914 and as Assistant Director of Veterinary Services 28th Division, 16.1-7.8.1915; Major 10.7.1915; Staff Officer Transport and Principal Veterinary Officer Egyptian Army, 11.9.1915; Served as Principal Veterinary Officer during the operations in Darfur 13.4-23.11.1916 (M.I.D. London Gazette 19.10.1914; 22.6.1915; 25.10.1916; 29.5.1917; 5.6.1919; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 1921); left the Egyptian Army with the rank of Mirafai (Brigadier) 15.12.1922; Lieutenant-Colonel 9.1.1928; Colonel 25.10.1929; Major-General and Director-General, Army Veterinary Service 1.12.1933; retired 1937.

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