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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 526

The mounted group of thirteen miniature dress medals attributed to Brigadier E. E. E. Cass, C.B.E., D.S.O. & Bar, M.C., King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Commander's Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, including top riband bar; Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; France & Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaves; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48; United States of America, Silver Star, mounted as worn, Great War awards a little polished, very fine (13)

C.B.E. London Gazette 23 March 1944.

D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1919.

D.S.O. Second Award Bar London Gazette 6 August 1940.

Edward Earnshaw Eden Cass - or Copper to his friends and comrades - was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in October 1916 and served with the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in France from March 1917. Wounded in action on 23 April, he returned to the front to win both decorations for the capture of Herleville and the advances to the Hindenburg Line.

Between the war Cass was Assistant Instructor at the Small Arms School, Pachamri, India and was a skilled shot. He won the Army Championship in 1935, was in the Army VIII and a member of the King's Hundred for ten years. A keen rugby player he Captained the 1st Battalion to the Rhine Army Rugby Cup and also turned out for the Army XV.

Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, he won himself a Bar to his D.S.O. for the action at Kvam, Norway on 25 April 1940 - when he personally led a bayonet charge in the 31 hours of battle that followed. Appointed to the command of 11th Infantry (Assault) Brigade in early 1942, he commanded the 78th Brigade for the Sicily and Italy landings, adding a C.B.E. to his laurels in the process.

He thence returned home to take charge of 8th (Assault) Brigade for the first wave of the D-Day landings, when he charged Queen Beach. Decorated with the Silver Star by Omar Bradley for his services in Normandy, Cass was wounded by a mine on 26 October 1944. A final slice of active service was seen in Palestine before retiring in 1948, when he became Secretary at Bisley; sold together with copied biography and photograph of the Silver Star being invested.

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£170