An exceptional M.B.E. group of nine to Captain R. Wright, Supply and Transport Corps, late Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver hallmarks for 1919; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4945 Sergt., 2d A.& S. Highlanders); China 1900, no clasp (Sergt., S. & T. Corps), name re-engraved; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (Sub. Condr., S.& T. Corps); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Northwest Frontier 1908, Abor 1911-12 (Sub Condtr., S. & T. Corps); 1914-15 Star (Lt., S.& T. Corps); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Lieut.); Army L.S.& G.C., E.VII.R. (Sub Condtr., S.& T. Corps), mounted for display, minor contact marks, very fine an better (9) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1924, Deputy Commissary and Captain Ralph Wright, I.A.S.C.

M.I.D. London Gazette 16 July 1912 (Abor), 5 April 1916 and 19 October 1916.

Ralph Herbert Allan Wright was born in 1873 and enlisted in 1888 with the Wiltshire Regiment, transferring to the 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in 1894 and the Commissariat and Transport Department in 1895. He served in operations in the Mahmund country, in the Bara Valley and Waran Valley 1897-98; in China 1900 and in Tibet 1903-04, at Niani, 26 June 1904 and operations in and around Gyantse, May - June 1904. Further service followed on the N.W. Frontier of India in 1908 with operations in the Zakka Khel country. For operations in Abor 1911-12, he was mentioned in despatches and was promoted Assistant Commissary with the Honorary rank of Lieutenant in the Supply and Transport Corps.

With the onset of the Great War, he served in Mesopotamia and was twice mentioned in despatches. In 1919 he was promoted Deputy Commissary with the rank of Captain and was awarded the M.B.E. in 1924.

Sold with copied service papers and other research.