Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Donough Carroll, 10th Baluch Regiment

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Lt., 1-10 Baluch R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Capt., 1-10 Baluch R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence & War Medals, edge bruise to the second, otherwise extremely fine (8) £350-400

Ex Rev. Ralph Fitzpatrick Collection.

O.B.E. London Gazette 5 August 1943: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Persia-Iraq.’

Donough Carroll was born on 15 July 1907, son of Brigadier-General J. W. V. Carroll, C.M.G., D.S.O. He was educated at the Oratory School and R.M.C. Sandhurst. Commissioned in the Army in September 1927, he was promoted Lieutenant in November 1927 and appointed to the Indian Army, 10th Baluchistan Regiment, in 1928. He was promoted to Major in September 1944 and retired in 1948 with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Sold with a folder containing further copied research.