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Auction: 8023 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 66

The K.C.V.O., M.C. Group of Eleven to Captain H.C. Lloyd, King´s Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Air Force, Later Gentleman Usher and Chief Constable of Mid-Wales Constabulary a) The Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander´s (K.C.V.O.) set of Insignia, neck Badge, 50mm, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially numbered ´K815´; Star, 74mm, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ´K815´ b) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed this a tailor´s copy c) The Most Venerable Order of St. John, Officer´s breast Badge, 41mm, silver and enamel d) 1914 Star, with copy Bar (2.Lieut: H.C. Lloyd. K.R.Rif:C.) e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. H.C. Lloyd. R.A.F.) f) Defence Medal g) Jubilee 1935 h) Coronation 1937 i) Coronation 1953 j) Police Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (Humphrey C. Lloyd Ch. Const.), generally good very fine, mounted in a glazed display case, with the recipient´s miniature awards, the Police L.S. & G.C. a G.VI.R. issue, and the riband bar for the second row of awards (12) Estimate £ 1,400-1,600 K.C.V.O. London Gazette 2.6.1962 Captain Humphrey Clifford Lloyd, C.V.O., M.C. C.V.O. London Gazette 1.6.1953 Captain Humphrey Clifford Lloyd, M.V.O., M.C. M.V.O. IV Class London Gazette 3.6.1935 Captain Humphrey Clifford Lloyd, M.C. M.C. London Gazette 23.6.1915 Lieutenant H.C. Lloyd, The King´´s Royal Rifle Corps M.I.D. London Gazette 22.6.1915 Lloyd, Lieutenant H.C., 1st Battalion, King´´s Royal Rifle Corps Captain Sir Humphrey Clifford Lloyd, K.C.V.O., M.C., (1893-1966), the son of Colonel Wilford Neville Lloyd, C.B., C.V.O. (see the following lot), educated at Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, King´´s Royal Rifle Corps, 3.9.1913; served during the Great War on the Western Front from 13.8.1914; wounded by a gun shot to the right elbow, 14.9.1914; invalided to England, 20.9.1914; Lieutenant, 15.12.1914; returned to the Western Front as Aide de Camp to General Rawlinson, Commanding 4th Army, 5.2-24.9.1916; Captain, 30.4.1916; Aide de Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 2.10.1916-1.1.1917; Attached Machine Gun Corps, 10.1-2.6.1917; Seconded to the War Office, 3.6-28.8.1917; Employed under Air Ministry upon the formation of the Royal Air Force, 1.4.1918-4.2.1919; served in France 18.8-11.11.1918; Assistant Inspector of Quarter Master General´´s Services, 6.2-17.9.1919; retired 1923. Appointed Gentleman Usher to the Royal Household, 16.9.1925; Assistant Chief Constable of the War Department Constabulary, 1932-36; Chief Constable of Montgomeryshire, 1936-48 (Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire 1946-48); Chief Constable of the Mid-Wales Constabulary, 1948-59.

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