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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 514

The mounted group of nine miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel C. T. A. Beevor, Royal Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd Type, Civil Officer's Badge, silver-gilt; Order of St John of Jerusalem, Brother's Badge; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; France & Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953; Territorial Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., with Four Additional clasps, mounted as worn, good very fine (9)

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1957.

Order of St John London Gazette 14 January 1964.

Cecil Thomas Ashworth Beevor was born in 1898 and was educated at Repton and the Royal Military College, Woolwich, being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in February 1916. He joined 53rd Field Artillery Brigade in France and saw action on 1 July 1916. Wounded by a bullet wound in the neck at Pont de Jour during the Battle of Arras on 12 April 1917, he was evacuated to England and returned for further active service near Vimy Ridge in 1918 and earned a mention (London Gazette 7 July 1919, refers).

A solicitor in civilian life, Beevor was Deputy Borough Coroner and Clerk to the Great Yarmouth Parish Council and Muckfleet Drainage Commissioners, Acle. He was awarded the T.D. in 1950, with his fourth clasp issued on 1 December 1953 and died in 1989; sold with copied research.

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