A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. McAughey, Canadian Staff, onetime attached 1st Battalion, Canadian Infantry (The Ontario Regiment)

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star, naming erased; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major J. McAughey); Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd Class neck badge, with swords, 47mm. x 47mm., bronze-gilt and enamel, the reverse with ‘k’ base metal mark and another for Eduard (?), together with a set of related miniature dress medals, central enamel wreaths chipped on the last, otherwise generally good very fine (10) £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 7 January 1918.

John McAughey, who was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in May 1877, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in September 1914.

In early 1915, after being commissioned, he was appointed to G.H.Q. Staff, in which capacity he held assorted appointments in England and France, including Staff Captain, 10th Infantry Reserve Brigade, in September 1915, and D.A.A.G. from April 1917, though his records also reveal periods of attachment to the 32nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry, and the 1st Battalion, the latter in France from September 1918 until the War’s end.

He was awarded the O.B.E., twice favourably brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War, namely in October 1916 and August 1917, and awarded the 2nd Class of the Order of St. Stanislaus, with swords (London Gazette 14 January 1918 refers), in addition to winning a “mention” (London Gazette 11 July 1919 refers).

Finally demobilised in September 1919, McAughey died in March 1927.

Sold with copied service record.