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Auction: 9004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 946

A Great War ´Egyptian Theatre´ M.C. Group of Six to Captain K.F. Kingwell, Royal Field Artillery, Wounded During the Defence of Jerusalem Against the Turks, 27.12.1917 a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued b) 1914-15 Star, reverse contemporarily engraved in upright serif capitals, ´2/Lieut K.F. Kingwell. R.F.A.´ c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lieut. K.F. Kingwell) d) Defence Medal, engraved ´Sect. Ldr. Kenneth F. Kingwell´ e) Special Constabulary Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R., with Long Service, 1944 Bar (Sect. Ldr. Kenneth F. Kingwell), generally very fine or better, together with the following related items: - M.I.D. Certificate to Lt. K.F. Kingwell H.A.C. & Royal Horse, & Royal Field Artillery. [T.F.], dated 3.4.1918 - Photograph of Recipient astride a Camel in Egypt, signed ´yours Ken 29.2.1916´ (lot) Estimate £ 700-900 M.C. London Gazette 1.1.1919 Lt. Kenneth Francis Kingwell, R.F.A. (T.F.) attd. 265th Bde. ´´For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in Egypt.´´ M.I.D. London Gazette 14.6.1918 Lt. K.F. Kingwell, Honourable Artillery Company and Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery (T.F.). (Egypt). Captain Kenneth Francis Kingwell, M.C., born Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 1880; educated at Fairfield College, Exeter; was a regular for the 1st XV of Rugby Football Club, 1904-09; prior to the Great War served as Sergeant-Major 4th Midland Royal Field Artillery; served during the Great War with the Royal Field Artillery in the French Theatre of War, from February 1915; Lieutenant 1.6.1916; Acting Captain 31.7.1917-8.9.1917; whilst serving in the Egyptian Theatre of War he received a, ´´G.S.W. L. Arm, L. Thigh, 27.12.1917, Jerusalem´´ (Papers refer); Kingwell was taken to Cairo before being invalided to Berkeley Square, London, where he was under treatment until September 1918, and his eventual discharge, ´´This officer asks to resign his commission through ill-health due to wounds´´ (entitled to Silver War Badge, No. 80740); after the war he worked for the British Thomson Houston Co. Ltd in Rugby, and served as a Section Leader in the Warwickshire Special Constabulary, 1932-45; in retirement Kingwell lived in Teignmouth, Devon. There is a note included with the medals which suggests that Kingwell was awarded his M.C. for gallantry ´´with 2nd Lieutenant Mitchell, on 20 [sic].7.1917 aided a wounded officer of the 5th Bedfords in no mans land (around Jerusalem)´´.

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