3rd Dec, 2025 10:00

Fine & Decorative Arts

 
Lot 247
 

247

An important and extensive collection of military medals, honours and awards presented to Major General Sir Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins, KCMG, CB (1858-1919), including British military medals: Great War group of three 1914 Star, War Medal and Victory Medal with oak leaf for mention in despatches (October 1914, May 1915, April 1916, January 1917, and November 1917), Death Plaque; Queens South Africa Medal with clasps for Transvaal, Driefontein, Paardeberg and Cape Colony; Kings South Africa Medal with clasps for South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902; Afghanistan Medal 1878, 1879, 1880; George V Coronation Medal 1911, with minitaures including the CMG (superseded by the KCMG), British Chivalric honours: The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander (1918), cross and star; Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Companion cross; International Orders: Belgian Croix de Guerre; Belgian Order of Leopold, cross of a Commander; French Order of Agricultural Merit, neck star and ribbon of a Commander; Imperial Russia, Order of St Anne, 1st Class, Military Division, star, sash and cross, with swords, gold and enamel, in original leather box, Order of St Vladimir, 4th Class with swords, gold and enamel, in original box; together with ribbon bars and reginmental badges including 85th Kings Light Infantry, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry, Shropshire Regiment buckle and another

Sold for £16,000


 

An important and extensive collection of military medals, honours and awards presented to Major General Sir Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins, KCMG, CB (1858-1919), including British military medals: Great War group of three 1914 Star, War Medal and Victory Medal with oak leaf for mention in despatches (October 1914, May 1915, April 1916, January 1917, and November 1917), Death Plaque; Queens South Africa Medal with clasps for Transvaal, Driefontein, Paardeberg and Cape Colony; Kings South Africa Medal with clasps for South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902; Afghanistan Medal 1878, 1879, 1880; George V Coronation Medal 1911, with minitaures including the CMG (superseded by the KCMG), British Chivalric honours: The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander (1918), cross and star; Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Companion cross; International Orders: Belgian Croix de Guerre; Belgian Order of Leopold, cross of a Commander; French Order of Agricultural Merit, neck star and ribbon of a Commander; Imperial Russia, Order of St Anne, 1st Class, Military Division, star, sash and cross, with swords, gold and enamel, in original leather box, Order of St Vladimir, 4th Class with swords, gold and enamel, in original box; together with ribbon bars and reginmental badges including 85th Kings Light Infantry, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry, Shropshire Regiment buckle and another

Auction: Fine & Decorative Arts, 3rd Dec, 2025

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