Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.B., C.M.G. group of five to Colonel J.J. Leverson, Royal Engineers, Military Censor at the Press Bureau during the Great War

ORDER OF THE BATH (Military) C.B., neck badge in silver-gilt and enamels; ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE, C.M.G., breast badge in silver-gilt and enamels, complete with correct suspension and ribbon buckle; EGYPT 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (A.D.A.C.G., Const. Transpt. Staff.) official correction to rank; CORONATION 1902, silver; KHEDIVE'S STAR 1882, generally very fine or better (5)

Colonel Julian John Leverson, C.B. (1918), C.M.G. (1897), was born in 1853 and educated at University College School; R.M.A. Woolwich; Staff College Sandhurst. Served in the Egyptian Campaign, 1882; Bechuanaland Expedition 1884-85; D.A.A.G. Intelligence Division of War Office, 1886-91; Secretary of Mr. Stanhope's Committee on Fortification and Armament of our Military and Home Ports, 1888; Assistant Commissioner Delimitation Russo-Turkish Frontier, 1880; Turco-Greek Frontier, 1881; Commissioner for settlement of Claims to Land in British Bechuanaland, 1885-86; Anglo-Portuguese Frontiers in East Africa, 1891-93; British Representative at Manica Land Boundary Arbitration, 1896; Commissioner Barué Delimitation Commission, 1898; Military Press Censor at the Press Bureau, 1914-18. Colonel Leverson died in 1941.