Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Egypt operations’ O.B.E. and M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Lord G. H. Cholmondeley, 1st Nottinghamshire Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, which battery supported the famous charge of the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade at the battle of Beersheba

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarked London 1918; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. Lord G. H. Cholmondeley. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major Lord G. H. Cholmondeley.) rank officially corrected on these two; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1911, unnamed, mounted court-style, good very fine (8) £1,400-£1,800

O.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt.’ Captain Lord, M.C., R.H.A. (T.F.).

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916: Lt. Lord, Notts. By. R.H.A., T.F.

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 June 1916 (Maxwell, Egypt); 22 January 1919 (Allenby, Egypt); 5 June 1919 (Allenby, Egypt).

Lord George Hugo Cholmondeley was born on 17 October 1887, second son of the 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and was educated at Eton College 1900-04. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Nottinghamshire Royal Horse Artillery on 27 March 1909, and proceeded to Egypt as a Lieutenant with the 1/1st Nottinghamshire Battery, R.H.A. on 24 April 1915. This battery joined the Imperial Mounted Division, which later became the Australian Mounted Division. It guarded the Suez Canal at Ismailia until 18 November 1915, and then fought the Senussi at Mersa Matruh until December 1916, with the Western Frontier Force. In January 1917, the division went to Palestine in time for the first battle of Gaza, where it was the battery that supported the famous charge of the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade at the battle of Beersheba. On 1 May 1918, the battery was supporting an attack in the Jordan valley when it (and other batteries of 19th Artillery Brigade) were overrun by Turkish forces. The Nottingham battery lost three of its six guns, while a further six guns were lost by the other two batteries. Having been promoted to Captain in December 1915, Lord Cholmondeley resigned his commission on 22 April 1920, and was granted the rank of Major. During the Second War he served as Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Northern Command, employed on War Office Selection Boards in the U.K. and Egypt, 1940-49. He died on 26 August 1958. Sold with comprehensive copied research.