The Great War group of five awarded to Brigadier-General R. C. Stevenson, Royal Artillery, sometime Military Attaché at Bangkok

1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Brig. Gen.); Coronation 1911; Thailand, Order of the White Elephant, 1st type, 3rd class neck badge in silver-gilt and enamels, by J. W. Benson Ltd, London, with full neck cravat and in its case of issue, nearly extremely fine (5) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Military Awards from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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Robert Crawford Stevenson was born on 28 April 1862, and educated at Wimbledon School. He joined the Royal Garrison Artillery as a Lieutenant on 25 July 1882, and by the outbreak of the Great War he had risen to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served during the war in France and Egypt and went on retired pay as Brigadier-General in 1920. He died in London on 10 January 1945, his obituary notice in The Times stating that he was ‘sometime Military Attaché at Bangkok. His award of the Order of the White Elephant is confirmed in Kelly’s Handbook.