Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust. Groups

Lot 3179    SESSION 13 (2.30PM THURSDAY 25TH MARCH)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust. Groups

Estimate $5,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $4,000

CBE GROUP OF TWELVE: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander (CBE Military type 2), neck badge; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19 with MID; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45 with MID; Australia Service Medal 1939-45; 1911 Coronation Medal; 1935 Jubilee Medal; 1937 Coronation Medal. First, fourth, fifth and sixth and last three medals unnamed, Captain. C.E.Prior. A.I.F. on second and third medals, SX1470 C.E.Prior on seventh, eighth and ninth medals. All named medals impressed. The first in case of issue by Garrard & Co, the rest display mounted, some contact marks, otherwise very fine - extremely fine.

Together with a rare embroidered blazer patch for the Australian 1937 Coronation Contingent.

CBE: LG 9/9/1942, p3945 - for ability and distinction in administration Middle East - to SX1470 Brigadier Claude Esdaile Prior. Presented by The Governor-General at Admiralty House, Sydney on 25 January 1949.

MID (WWI): LG 11/7/1919, p8833; CAG 30/10/1919, p1656, to Captain Claude Esdaile Prior 3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion.

MID (WWII): (1) LG 30/12/1941, p7357 and (2) LG 23/6/1942 to SX1470 Brigadier Claude Esdaile Prior.

Coronation Medal 1911: Confirmed entitlement to Claude E Prior as member of Senior Cadets Coronation Contingent.

Jubilee Medal 1935: Confirmed entitlement on Commonwealth List to Capt Claude Esdaile Prior ASC.

Coronation Medal 1937: Confirmed entitlement to Maj Claude Esdale (sic) Prior as member of Coronation Contingent (Military Detachment).

Claude Esdaile Prior, soldier, age 20, born at Boorowa, NSW; entered Royal Military College (RMC), Duntroon 12Mar1914 and graduated 03Apr1916; WWI: Enl.04Apr1916 at RMC Duntroon, and Appt. Lieut, with previous service in Junior and Senior Cadets; Emb.04May1916; TOS 34Bn and seconded for duty as Staff Officer 23Dec1916; Tfr to 36Bn 10Jan1917; to Capt 25Mar1917; TOS 61Bn 17Apr1917; Trf to 36Bn 15Sep1917; to France 06Jan1918; WIA 20Apr1918, gassed, Villers-Bretonneux, France; Trf to 33Bn 13Jun1918; Trf to 3rd MG Bn 14Nov1918; Appt Temp Adjt 17Jan1919; RTA 17May1919; AIF Appt terminated 31Oct1919; to Adjutant and Quartermaster 30Bn Apr1924; Capt-Staff Corps and Brigade Major Dec1925; to Lt-Col 1939 and appt'd Aide-de-Campe to Governor of South Australia; WWII: CO of 2/1 MG Bn and Emb.04May1940 for Middle East; Colonel and Asst Quartermaster General 6Div to 1941; to Temp Brig Gen May1941; RTA Mar1942; Military Secretary Land HQs 1943; to Colonel Admin HQs New Guinea Force to Feb1944; Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General 2nd Army to Dec1945; Appt'd senior Australian Military Observer with United Nations Commission for Indonesia in 1949; Retired c1950; Appt'd General Secretary of the Manly Chamber of Commerce Jul1953; Died 16Jun1954 suddenly at his home in Manly, Sydney, NSW; Buried the next day at a military funeral at Northern Suburbs Cemetery after a service at St Matthew's Church of England at The Corso, Manly.