Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Five: Captain A. J. Carr, Royal Engineers
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut. A. J. Carr. R.E.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Lieut. A. J. Carr. R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. A. J. Carr. R.E.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt. A. J. Carr. R.E.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted court style, the British awards all unofficially renamed, lacquered, very fine

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private C. J. Carr, Lord Strathcona’s Horse, late 6th Dragoons
Military Medal, G.V.R., erased; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Pte. C. J. Carr. 6th. Dragoons) unofficially renamed; British War and Victory Medals (551818 Pte. C. J. Carr. L.S.H. -R.C.-) mounted court style, lacquered, good very fine

Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Militia (1984580. Cpl. A. J. Carr. R.E.) about extremely fine (10) £300-400

M.M. London Gazette 10 December 1918.

Cecil James Carr was born in London on 29 March 1881, the son of Captain A. J. Carr, and served with the 6th Dragoons in India, before emigrating to Canada and served with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police prior to the Great War. He attested for the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 11 April 1916, and served during the Great War with Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) on the Western Front from 25 May 1916. He was wounded on 2 September 1918, and awarded the Military Medal at the end of the War.