Orders, Decorations & Medals - British Groups

Lot 2914    SESSION 14 (2.30PM THURSDAY 1ST AUG)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - British Groups

Estimate $15,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au

GROUP OF THIRTEEN: The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (Companion) (CB) (Military) neck badge; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Commander) (CBE) (Military) neck badge; Distinguished Service Order (VRI); Queen's Sudan Medal 1896-97; Queen's South Africa Medal (type 2, shows removal of dates), - six clasps - Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek; King's South Africa Medal 1901-02, - two clasps - South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, - clasp - 5th Aug.-22nd Nov. 1914; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19 with MID; Coronation Medal 1911; USA Distinguished Service Medal; Khedive's Sudan Medal 1896-1908, - clasp - Khartoum; France Legion of Honour (Commander) neck badge. The first three medals unnamed, Capt H.N.Sargent. A.S.C. on fourth medal, Major. H.N.Sargent. D.S.O. A.S.C. on fifth medal, Maj. H.N.Sargent. D.S.O. A.S.C. on sixth medal, Col: H.N.Sargent. D.S.O. on seventh medal, Maj-Gen. H.N.Sargent. on eighth and ninth medals, the last four medals unnamed. The seventh to ninth medals impressed, the other named medals engraved. The first three medals loose, the remaining ten are display court mounted, some medals with contact marks, otherwise very fine - extremely fine.

Together with cases for the CB, CBE and the Legion of Honour; original court mounted ribbons for third to tenth medals.^Ex Dave Wright Militaria & Collectables, June 2008.^CB: Supplement to LG 22/6/1915, p6111 - to Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Harry Neptune Sargent, D.S.O. CBE: LG in 1919 (date not known).^DSO: Supplement to LG 26/6/1902, p4192 - to Major Harry Neptune Sargent, Army Service Corps, in recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.^MID: on 8 occasions in LG.^French Legion of Honour: LG details unknown.^USA DSM: Second Supplement to LG 11/7/1919, p8939 - to Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Harry Neptune Sargent, C.B., D.S.O.^Harry Neptune Sargent, born 06Apr1886, the son of the late Major-General E.W. Sargent; educated at Ireland and entered the Devonshire Regt 10Nov1886; trf to Army Service Corps 15May1890; to Capt 07Jan1892; Adjutant of ASC 01Jan1895 to 28Feb1898; served with Nile Expedition in 1898 and was present at Battle of Khartoum; employed as Staff Officer to Commandant, Assouan, for British Troops and Stores; MID (LG 30/9/1898); to Brevet Major 06Nov1898; to Major 01Apr1900; also served in South African War as D.A.A.G. 13Nov1899 to 08Jul1902; took part in Relief of Ladysmith including ops of 17 to 24Jan1900 and action at Spion Kop; also ops of 05-07Feb1900 and action at Vaal Kranz; also ops on Tugela Heights (14 to 27Feb1900) and action at Pieter's Hill; took part in ops in Natal (Mar-Jun1900) including action at Laing's Nek 06-09Jun); served in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria Jul to Oct1900; also during ops in Cape Colony Nov & Dec1899 (Despatches by Sir R.H. Buller, 30Mar and 09Nov1900 (LG 8/2/1901); appointed Companion of Distinguished Service Order (LG 26/6/1902); Invested by the King 18Dec1902; Asst Director of Supplies and Transport, 3rd Army Corps and also Irish Command 01Oct1903 to 31May1905 and Deputy A.D.S. and T. 01Jun1905 to 30Sep1906 and promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 27Oct1906; commanded Army Service Corps in Dublin 1906-8 and the Service Companies, ASC, Aldershot 1908-11 being appointed Brevet Colonel 27Oct1909 and promoted to Colonel 04Oct1911; Colonel in Command ASC Records, Woolwich Dockyard 01Aug1912 to 14Dec1913 and from 15Dec1913 to outbreak of the European War, A.D. of S. and T., Aldershot Command; served in European War as A.Q.M.G., 1st Corps 05Aug to 26Dec1914 and was in the retreat from Maubeuge, the Battles of the Marne and Aisne and the First Battle of Ypres; from 27Dec1914 to 21May1916 he was D.A. and Q.M.G. of the 5th Army (Temporary Major-General 07Jul1916 to 19Dec1917); present at the Battles of the Somme, ops south of Arras and the Third Battle of Ypres; was Chief of the British Mission Headquarters, S.O.S. American Expeditionary Force 18Apr1918 to Jul1919; married Ethel, daughter of Daniel Twomey of Kolor, Penshurst, Victoria in Australia; Died 06Feb1946.^With research.