Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An inter-War O.B.E. group of six awarded to A. S. Auret, Indian Army

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1926; British War and Victory Medals (Maj. A. S. Auret.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Maj. A. S. Auret. 2/98/Infy.) officially re-impressed naming; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted for wear and housed in a contemporary leather case, good very fine (6) £240-£280

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1927.

Alan Sauer Auret was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment on 22 October 1902 and transferred to the Indian Army on 25 March 1904. Posted to the 102nd Prince of Wales’s Own Grenadiers, he was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 25 May 1927, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire that same year. He was promoted Colonel on 25 May 1931, and transferred to the Retired List on 29 March 1935.