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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 375

A Great War 1918 ´French Theatre´ O.B.E. Group of Six to Captain G.E. Bowman, Machine Gun Corps, Formerly Honourable Artillery Company and Somerset Light Infantry, Later Royal Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer´s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt; 1914 Star, with Bar (960 Pte. G. Bowman. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. G.E. Bowman); Defence and War Medals, extremely fine (6) Estimate £ 240-280 O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Bowman, Capt. George Edward, M.G. Corps. ´For valuable service rendered in connection with military operations in France.´ M.I.D. London Gazette 30.12.1918 Bowman, T./Capt. G.E., Machine Gun Corps. M.I.D. London Gazette 10.7.1919 Bowman, T./Capt. G.E., Machine Gun Corps. Captain George Edward Bowman, O.B.E., served with the Honourable Artillery Company in France from 18.9.1914; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, 14.8.1915; transferred Machine Gun Corps, 27.3.1916; Promoted Lieutenant, 6.7.1916; Appointed Adjutant, 28.5.1917; Captain, 3.11.1917; retired, 10.5.1921. Re-enlisted with an Emergency Commission as Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps, 6.2.1940; Captain and Temporary Major, 28.2.1941.

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