A Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. Kane, Royal Artillery, who commanded 72nd Brigade, R.G.A. from November 1916 until the end of the War

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. A. H. Kane); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, with bronze palm, generally good very fine (4) £1200-1500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

View
Collection

D.S.O. London Gazette 19 June 1919.

Arthur Hyde Kane, who was born in September 1870, was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in July 1889, and served in Sierra Leone, Malta and India prior to the Great War. A Major by the outbreak of hostilities, he first went out to France in November 1916, as C.O. of 72nd Brigade, R.G.A., and he remained similarly employed until the end of the War, a period of active service described in detail in his unit’s war diary, from an opening bombardment at Serre on the Somme soon after the 72nd’s arrival, through to an observation reconnoitre near the River Escaut in November 1918 - with plenty of action in between, including Arras and Passchendaele. He was awarded the D.S.O. and the French Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 30 June 1921 refers), and twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazettes 23 December 1918 and 7 July 1919 refer).

The Colonel, who was placed on the Retired List in July 1921, died at Yateley, Hampshire in November 1942.

Sold with copied war diary extracts for the period of Kane’s command of 72nd Brigade, R.G.A.