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Auction: 9004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 944

A Great War ´Military Division´ M.B.E. Group of Four to Captain A.C. Rouse, Royal Army Service Corps a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Member´s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver (Hallmarks for London 1918) b) 1914-15 Star (Capt. A.C. Rouse. A.S.C.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. A.C. Rouse.), generally very fine or better, mounted as originally worn, together with the following contemporary documentation: - Two M.I.D. Certificates, dated 7.11.1917 and 8.11.1918 respectively - Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Rouse from the Daily Mail, dated 27.4.1978 (lot) Estimate £ 120-160 O.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1919 T./Capt. Alfred Corrie Rouse, R.A.S.C. Captain Alfred Corrie Rouse, O.B.E., born 1886, son of Alfred Rouse, of Carvedras, Truro; educated at Christ´´s Hospital and King´´s College; as a Civilian he was a Member of the Argentine Legion of Frontiersmen and ´´has broken horses in England and in the Argentine´´ (papers refer); commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal Army Service Corps, 26.11.1914; advanced Temporary Captain 22.3.1915, a letter of application, dated 22.2.1917, gives more incite into his service during the Great War, ´´I beg to enquire whether there are any vacancies for Equipment Officers, Royal Flying Corps, and, if so to submit my name as a candidate for transfer to that corps for favourable consideration. Since November, 1915, I have been a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps (Supplies) and have served with the B.E.F., France, being invalided to England last October with a fractured wrist´´ (Twice M.I.D. London Gazette 24.12.1917 and 30.12.1918), sadly for Rouse his application was unsuccessful.

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