Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 594
India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Major L.M. Verney. R.A.V.C.), good very fine Estimate £ 200-240 D.S.O. London Gazette 1.1.1918 Maj. Leonard Morris Verney, F.R.C.V.S., A.V.C. Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Morris Verney, D.S.O., born June 1878; served 291 days in the Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War; Commissioned Lieutenant, Army Veterinary Corps, 3.9.1904; Captain, 3.9.1909; served during the Great War on the Western Front, August 1914-April 1915 and July 1915-November 1918 (Four times Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazettes 4.1.1917; 15.5.1917; 11.12.1917; 5.7.1919); Major, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, 10.7.1915; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel whilst Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, 15th Army Corps, British Armies in France, 16.2-5.5.1919; Deputy Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, Waziristan Force, 10.8.1921-4.12.1924; Deputy Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, India, 16.2.1929-21.6.1931; Lieutenant-Colonel, 5.5.1931, Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, India, 22.6.1931.
Sold for
£600
