Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Captain G. A. C. Ward, Royal Navy, latterly Captain in charge Naval Base, Poole, 1915-19

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, the reverse hallmarked London 1917; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp, unnamed, not erased; China 1900, no clasp (Lieut. G. A. C. Ward, R.N., H.M.S. Dido.); 1914-15 Star (Commr. G. A. C. Ward. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Commr. G. A. C. Ward. R.N.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed; Japan, Empire, Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gilt and enamels, complete with neck cravat and usual fitments, damage to several red ‘jewels’ on the last, otherwise about extremely fine (8) £400-£500

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class London Gazette 11 August 1919.

George Augustus Crosbie Ward was born at Monkstown, Dublin, on 14 August 1865, son of The Hon. Somerset Richard Hamilton Augustus Ward, J.P., Captain, 72nd Highlanders. He joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet on 15 January 1879, and was promoted to Midshipman on 22 January 1882. He was Midshipman of Achilles during the war in Egypt in 1882. Promoted to Sub-Lieutenant in April 1886, and to Lieutenant in June 1889, he served aboard H.M.S. Dido during the war in China in 1900, and was promoted to Commander on 31 December 1901. During the Great War he was Captain in charge Naval Base, Poole, from August 1915 to January 1919. Commander G. A. C. Ward died on 6 April 1920, at Manchester Square, London.