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Auction: 5012 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 532

A Great War O.B.E. Group of Nine to Lieutenant Colonel H.V. Kitson, Royal Army Service Corps Order of the British Empire, Officer´s breast Badge (O.B.E.), 1st type, Military Division, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1919); 1914-15 Star (Major H.V. Kitson. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lt. Col. H.V. Kitson); Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Territorial Decoration G.V.R., with top riband bar, very fine or better, with related group of nine miniature awards (18) Estimate £ 230-260O.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1919 Lieutenant Colonel Hubert Vernon Kitson R.A.S.C. Lieutenant Colonel Hubert Vernon Kitson O.B.E., T.D. (1883-1957), educated at Forest School, Essex; Captain 2nd West Riding Brigade Company Army Service Corps Territorial Forces, 16.6.1910; Officer Commanding the latter Brigade, August 1914 - November 1916; served in the Great War on the Western Front April 1915 - 11.11.1918 (M.I.D. 1.1.1916 and 30.12.1918); advanced Lieutenant Colonel 1.6.1916; Deputy Assistant Director of Transport, West Riding Divisional Supply Column A.S.C., 25.11.1916; Assistant Director of Transports 1918; retired; re-engaged as 2nd Lieutenant Royal Army Service Corps, 11.12.1939; Major 10.9.1940; Temporary Lieutenant Colonel 10.9.1940.

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