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Auction: 4004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 182

Four: Colonel A.W. Elles, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Order of the British Empire, Officer's (O.B.E.), 1st type, Military Division, breast Badge, silver-gilt; India General Service 1854-95, two clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut. A.W. Elles 1st Bn. York L.I.); Queen's South Africa, two clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal (Major); King's South Africa, two clasps, Regiment on first medal partly corrected, very fine (4) Estimate £ 300-350 O.B.E. London Gazette 4.6.1918 Colonel Arthur Warre Elles 'Services in connection with recruiting.' Colonel Arthur Warre Elles O.B.E., born 1864; entered the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1883; Adjutant 1st Battalion, 1890-93; Aide-de-Camp to Major General and Lieutenant General, Bengal 1893-96; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, South Africa 1899-1902; Commanded 2nd Battalion of the Regiment 1906-10 and rose to Colonel 1910; General Staff 1914-16; Recruiting Staff 1916-17; National Service 1918 (O.B.E. 1921).

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