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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 447

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel A.C. Tompkins, Royal Fusiliers 1914 Star (Lt: Col: A.C. Tompkins.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lt. Col. A.C. Tompkins); Coronation 1911, engraved in large serif capitals ´Lt. Col. A.C. Tompkins. 7th. The Roy Fuss.´; France, Republic, Order of Agricultural Merit, Officer´s breast Badge, 60mm including wreath suspension x 35mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, damage to last, very fine or better (5) Estimate £ 220-250 Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Charles Tompkins, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Westmoreland Militia, April 1881; transfers 4th Battalion, Border Regiment; resigns, July 1882; Commissioned Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), June 1884; Captain July 1889; seconded for service with the British South Africa Company, January 1890; employed Egyptian Coast Guard Service, May 1895; seconded for service in Uganda, May 1899; Honorary Major, 27.6.1900; seconded for service with the Johore Sikh Force, 6.5.1902; Major, 17.6.1907; served as Lieutenant-Colonel with the 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on the Western Front, 24.9-16.12.1914 and 30.5.1915-11.11.1918; served on the Staff as Assistant Provost Marshal, 12.4.1915-20.2.1917; as Administration Commandant Army Railheads, from 21.2.1917; twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 1.1.1916 and 4.1.1917) and awarded the French Order of Agricultural Merit.

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