Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel C. S. W. Sabine, 5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment and Major, Army Dental Corps

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; these privately engraved ‘Lt. Col. C. S. W. Sabine (7584) W. Yorks.’; Coronation 1937 (Lt. Col. C. S. W. Sabine, 5 W. Yorks.) privately engraved; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with three ‘G.VI.R.’ clasps, decoration reverse impressed in small figures, ‘1939’ and engraved, ‘Lieut. Colonel C. S. W. Sabine, 5th Bn. The West Yorkshire Regt.’; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Charles S. W. Sabine) mounted court style as worn, good very fine and better (6) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Charles Shirley Wilmshurst Sabine was born in Birkenhead on 11 September 1900. He was educated in Yorkshire and qualified as a Dental Surgeon at Leeds University in 1923 where he was a member of the O.T.C. He was subsequently in practice in Harrogate and joined the 5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, being commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant on 31 July 1920. On 5 June 1936 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. With the onset of war he transferred to the Army Dental Corps, serving with the B.E.F. in France and later commanding the A.D.C. School of Instruction at Aldershot, attaining the rank of Major. After the war he initially returned to his practice in Harrogate but soon moved to Eastbourne where he was an active member of the Royal Observer Corps and Army Cadet Force. Awarded 3 clasps to the Efficiency Decoration in 1950 (London Gazette 4 July 1950). He retired from the T.A. with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1956 and died in Eastbourne on 17 November 1980.

With birth and death certificates and copied research, including several copied photographs of the recipient.