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Auction: 5012 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 632

Four: Captain Sir H.H. Duncan, Norfolk Yeomanry British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H.H. Duncan); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Defence Medal, extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 50-70Captain Sir Harold Handasyde Duncan, K.C.M.G., Q.C., (1885-1962); born King Williamstown, South Africa; educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford University; served as a Junior in the Foreign Office, 1908; Confidential Secretary to the London Committee, Imperial Ottoman Banks 1909, on special mission to Constantinople, 1912; Second Lieutenant Norfolk Yeomanry, 28.1.1915; Lieutenant 1.6.1916; served in the Great War on the Western Front from March 1917; Liaison Officer (Intelligence A) between British G.H.Q. Italy and British Military Mission, Commando Supremo 1918; Captain 3.1.1918; called to Bar, Inner Temple, 1919; Temporary Legal Assistant, Ministry of Health, 1927; Second Assistant Legal Adviser, 1930-31 and Assistant Legal Adviser, 1931-43 to Dominions Office and Colonial Office; Legal Adviser to Dominions Office and Colonial Office, 1943-45 (Knighted 1945; Q.C. 1948; Netherlands, Commander of the Order of the Orange Nassau, 1955).

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