Seven: Captain C. W. Minty, Royal Army Service Corps, late Honourable Artillery Company

1914 Star (1228 Pte., H.A.C. (Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 2nd type, 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, centre and pendilia re-enamelled; Serbia, Order of St. Sava, 2nd type, 5th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, ‘Saint with red robes’, one ball finial missing, enamel damage; Greece, Royal Order of the Redeemer, Knight’s Gold Cross, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage; Greece, Medal of Military Merit, 4th Class, bronze, St. Sava and Redeemer lacking ribbon; together with a further Victory Medal (Capt. C. E. Minty) renamed, nearly very fine and better (8) £650-750

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 28 January 1919. (Salonika) ‘... for gallant and distinguished services rendered during the period from the 1st March to 1st October, 1918.’

Serbia, Order of St. Sava, 5th Class London Gazette 24 October 1919. ‘Temporary Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps.’

Greece, Order of the Redeemer, Chevalier London Gazette 24 October 1919. ‘Temporary Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps.’

Greece, Medal of Military Merit, 4th Class London Gazette 26 November 1919. ‘Temporary Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps.’

Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class with swords London Gazette 29 September 1922.

Cyril Ward Minty was born in Llanelly, Carmathenshire and was educated in St. Dunstan’s College. A Banker’s Clerk in the employ of the National Provincial Bank of England, living in Catford, he attested for the H.A.C. on 9 August 1914, aged 22 years, 9 months. As a Private in the H.A.C. Infantry he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 August 1914. Was wounded in action on 16 June 1915. Discharged to a commission in the A.S.C. on 25 June 1915, he served in Salonika from September 1916. Granted the local rank of Captain in July 1918 and was later ranked as a Major. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches and was awarded two Greek and two Serbian decorations. He later served in the Army of the Black Sea until September 1920, when he was appointed D.A.D.S.T. with the British Military Mission, Belgrade. He relinquished his commission in January 1921.

With riband bar and portrait photograph of the recipient; a typed letter re the award of the St. Sava and copied m.i.c., gazette extracts and service papers. Amongst the numerous service papers were reports in December 1920 and another in November 1921 that several of Major Minty’s cheques had ‘bounced’; another in July 1921 reported that money passed to him by a Russian lady had been misappropriated.