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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 86

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Linnitt, Dorset Home Guard, Late Devonshire Regiment; A Keen Footballer In Later Life He Served as the F.A. Representative at F.I.F.A.
1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. C.F. Linnitt. Devon. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C.F. Linnitt.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1937; Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R. (Cadet Major. C.F. Linnitt.), very fine (6)

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Frederick Linnitt, educated at Northampton Grammar School and Birmingham University, where he captain the University Football XI; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Devonshire Regiment, and served during the Great War in the Egyptian Theatre of War from September 1915; in Civilian life employed as a Schoolmaster, and appointed Headmaster of Weymouth Grammar School, 1934; during the Second War promoted Major, 1.2.1941, and served with the 5th (Weymouth) Battalion, Dorset Home Guard; subsequently advanced Lieutenant-Colonel, Cadet Forces.

Throughout his life Linnett maintained an active involvement in football, and was elected as the Dorset representative to the Football Association (F.A.) in1943. He subsequently served as the F.A.'s representative at F.I.F.A., where he helped choose the host country and arranged World Cups: 'It was his quality, honesty, tact, and his reliability in carrying out responsibility that brought him many important assignments in the sphere of football' (account in the recipient's obituary, Dorset Evening News refers). For his services to football, he was made an Honorary Life Vice-President of the F.A. in September 1969, shortly before his death in January 1970.

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