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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 119

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel G.P. Orde, Royal Marine Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (Capt. G.P. Orde, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Maj. G.P. Orde. R.M.L.I.), good very fine (3) Estimate £ 140-180 Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Philip Orde, (1884-1947); born Godfrey Philip Oppenheim, at Paddington, London, and educated at Cheltenham College; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 1.1.1902; promoted Lieutenant, 1.1.1903; Captain, 1.1.1913; saw service during the Great War at Gallipoli and with the Adriatic Squadron attached to the Italian Fleet; changed his name by Deed Poll to Orde, (London Gazette 16.11.1915); promoted Major, 22.2.1917; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1.1.1919; was part of the Naval Staff of the British Delegation at the Peace Conference in Paris, January to May 1919. In the Second World War, following the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, Orde compiled The Dunkirk List: Operation Dynamo, 26th May to 4th June 1940, Alphabetical List of Vessels taking part with their Services, a comprehensive list of all vessels which bought even one soldier back across the Channel which today is considered the definitive list of the ´Little Ships´.

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£230