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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 544

A Great War D.S.O. Group of Eight to Colonel J.W.H. Houghton, Royal Army Medical Corps, Who Was Appointed British Red Cross Commissioner attached to the Greek Army During the Turco-Balkan War, 1912-13, And Commanded a Red Cross Unit There a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing´s Nek (Capt. J.W.H. Houghton. R.A.M.C.) c) King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Capt. J.W.H. Houghton. M.B. R.A.M.C.) d) 1914 Star, with Bar (Major J.W.H. Houghton. R.A.M.C.) e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Col. J.W.H. Houghton.) f) Greece, Order of the Redeemer, Fifth Class breast Badge, gold and enamel g) Greece, Balkan War Medal, good very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (8) Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 D.S.O. London Gazette 1.1.1918 Houghton, John William Hobart, M.B., Lieut-Col. (Temp. Col.) R.A.M.C. Colonel John William Hobart Houghton, D.S.O. (1876-1959), born Kensington, London; M.B. BCh Dublin 1898; commissioned Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps, 1899; served during the Boer War (1899-1902) and was present at Spion Kop and Pieters Hill; Captain 28.1.1902; D.P.H Dublin 1903; served in Sierra Leone, 1907-09; Major 28.10.1910; appointed British Red Cross Commissioner, attached Greek Army in Macedonia and Epirus for the Turco-Balkan War, 1912-13; he commanded one of the two Red Cross units sent out, his being stationed at Vodena; served during the Great War from, 26.9.1914; Lieutenant-Colonel 1.3.1915 (M.I.D. London Gazette 24.12.1917); served in Bermuda, 1922-24; Colonel 26.12.1923; retired 1927.

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