Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War C.M.G., ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General C. A. Elliott, Royal Engineers, who was mentioned in despatches for his service as a Field Engineer during the Tibet Expedition of 1903-04, and mentioned in despatches a further five times during the Great War

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, obverse centre depressed; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (Captn: C. A. Elliott. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (Major C. A. Elliott. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Brig. Gen. C. A. Elliott.) generally good very fine unless otherwise stated (6) £2,400-£2,800

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003.

C.M.G. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 13 December 1904, 4 January 1917, 15 May 1917, 11 December 1917, 17 December 1918 and 5 July 1919.

Charles Allen Elliott was born in March 1871. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in July 1890, and advanced to Captain in May 1901. Elliott served as a Field Engineer in the Tibet Expedition, serving at the action at Niani, the operations in and around Gyantse and the march to Lhassa (M.I.D.) He advanced to Major in 1910 and served during the Great War on the Western Front from July 1915. Elliott advanced to Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in 1916, and to Lieutenant-Colonel and Temporary Brigadier-General in 1918.

Brigadier General Elliott, who died on 15 August 1919, aged 48, is buried in Rawalpindi War Cemetery and commemorated on the Delhi Memorial.

Approximately 107 officers received the Tibet Medal with clasp for Gyantse.