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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 1

The Second War C.B., Great War D.S.O., M.C. Group of Ten to Major-General T.N.F. Wilson, King´s Royal Rifle Corps, Later A.D.C. to H.M. the King
a) The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel
b) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, obverse centre slightly depressed, with integral top riband bar
c) Military Cross, G.V.R.
d) 1914-15 Star (Lieut: T.N.F. Wilson, K.R. Rif: C.)
e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Major T.N.F. Wilson)
f) 1939-1945 Star
g) Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaf
h) Coronation 1953, generally good very fine, mounted court-style as worn, with the recipient´s related miniature awards, and the following Bestowal Documents &c.:
- Commission appointing Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson a Second Lieutenant, King´s Royal Rifle Corps, dated 11.11.1914
- Bestowal Document for the Order of the Bath, C.B., dated 13.6.1946, together with a copy of the Statutes of the Order, and Central Chancery letter
- Bestowal Document for the D.S.O., dated 3.6.1919
- Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, dated 16.3.1919
- Various copy photographs of the recipient (lot)

C.B. London Gazette 13.6.1946 Major-General (temporary) Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, D.S.O., M.C. (8864), late Infantry.

D.S.O. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Capt. Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, M.C., 1st Bn., K.R. Rif. C.
´For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders.´

M.C. London Gazette 13.2.1917 Lt. (actg. Capt.) Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, K.R.R.C.
´For conspicuous gallantry in action. He reorganised a few men and led them forward with great gallantry, capturing an enemy trench together with 60 prisoners.´

Major-General Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., born March 1896, and educated at Winchester College and R.M.C. Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, King´s Royal Rifle Corps, 11.11.1914; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from February 1915 (wounded); promoted Captain, February 1917, and held the rank of Acting Major and Adjutant, M.G.C., April to September 1918. During the period December 1917 - April 1918 he was employed as an Instructor in the 5th Army Infantry School. For his wartime services he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, awarded the Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 9.7.1919). Employed as G.S.O.3 in the War Office, January 1931 to March 1932; Commander of the Company of Gentleman Cadets, R.M.C., March 1932 to January 1935; D.A.A.G. War Office, February 1936 to January 1938, during which time he received the brevet of Major, January 1932; promoted Major, July 1932; received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1936; and promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, August 1938. Commanding the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. during 1938-39, promoted Colonel, January 1939; served as a Brigadier Commanding in the British Expeditionary Force and Northern Command, December 1939 to December 1940 (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 20.12.1940). Served on the General Staff Home Forces, December 1940 to July 1941, and then on the General Staff in Washington, July 1941 to March 1943. For his wartime services Wilson was Appointed Aide-de-Camp to H.M. the King, February 1946, and created a Companion of the Order of the Bath; retired with the honorary rank of Major-General, April 1946, and died in May 1961.

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