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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 733

A Great War ´Western Front´ M.C. Group of Seven to Colonel H.G.V. Roberts, Middlesex Regiment, attached Machine Gun Corps, and Royal Tank Corps a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued b) 1914-15 Star (Capt. H.G.V. Roberts. Midd´x R.) c) British War and Victory Medals. M.I.D. Oakleaves, this riband bar issue (Lt. Col. H.G.V. Roberts.) d) Jubilee 1935 e) Coronation 1937 f) France, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated 1914-18, generally very fine (7) Estimate £ 800-1,000 M.C. London Gazette 4.6.1917 Capt. Horace George Victor Roberts, Midd´´x R. France, Croix de Guerre, London Gazette 19.6.1919 Captain (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Horace George Victor Roberts, M.C., Middlesex Regiment, attached Machine Gun Corps. Colonel Horace George Victor Roberts, M.C., born 1887; mobilised from the Territorial Forces for service during the Great War with the Middlesex Regiment in the Egyptian Theatre of War, August 1915 - 18.3.1916; served on the Western Front April 1916 - December 1916 and 1.6.1917 - 11.11.1918 (Twice M.I.D. London Gazette 4.1.1917 and 9.7.1919); Roberts was attached to the Machine Gun Corps from 8.7.1916; Captain 8.2.1917; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel 27.12.1917-16.11.1919; Officer Commanding 40th Battalion M.G.C. 27.12.1917-20.5.1918 and appointed as Officer Commanding 30th Battalion M.G.C., 21.5.1918; transferred to the Royal Tank Corps, 1.4.1922; Major 21.12.1930; Colonel 1.4.1937; served during the Second World War as the Commandant of the Small Arms and Mechanization School, Ahmednagar, India. Provenance: J.B. Hayward March 1973

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