Orders, Decorations and Medals

Lieutenant-Colonel John Woodcroft Sorby, Gurkha Rifles
Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: 1914-15 Star; War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-18; Coronation 1911; ‘Blue ribbon’; 1939-45 Star; ‘Khaki ribbon’, with M.I.D. oak leaf, good condition (lot) £20-30

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Ribbons from the Collection of the late Judge Henry Pownall.

View
Collection

With original M.I.D. certificate to Major (T/Lieut-Colonel) W. J. W. Sorby, V.D., Corps of Indian Engineers, London Gazette 5 August 1943 - in envelope; with 26 related original photographs, some identified. With newspaper clipping with his obituary, 7 October 1960.