Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An inter-War O.B.E. group of five awarded to C. L. Bruton, Esq., District Officer, Uganda Protectorate, late Uganda Volunteer Reserve, who played First Class cricket for Gloucestershire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt (hallmarks for London 1934); British War Medal 1914-20 (126 Pte. C. L. Bruton. Uganda V.R.); War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, these similarly mounted; and a Commemorative Jubilee 1937 Medallion, silvered, the edge inscribed ‘C. L. Bruton’, in damaged Royal Mint case of issue, light contact marks, very fine and better (6) £300-£400

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1935: Charles Lamb Bruton, Esq., District Officer, Uganda Protectorate

Charles Lamb Bruton was born in Wotton, Gloucestershire, on 6 April 1890, and was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford. He was appointed to the Colonial Service in 1914, and was posted to Uganda as an Assistant District Commissioner. He was advanced District Commissioner in 1924, and Provincial Commissioner of the Eastern Province in 1936. He subsequently served as Resident Commissioner in Swaziland from 1937 to 1942, and then as Commissioner of the East African Refugee Administration from 1942 until his retirement in 1947. He died in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on 26 March 1969.

Bruton was a keen amateur cricketer, and played three First Class matches for Gloucestershire in 1922.