Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘French theatre’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain J. A. Mowat, 2/1st Hampshire Yeomany, attached 15th (Service) Battalion (2nd Portsmouth), Hampshire Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. A. Mowat.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut. J. A. Mowat. Hamps. R.) mounted for wear, generally good very fine (4) £800-£1,000

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

John Alexander Mowat was born in Wick, Caithness in September 1887, and subsequently moved with his family to Southampton, Hampshire. He enlisted in the Hampshire Carabiniers at Winchester in February 1909, and advanced to Sergeant in October 1914. Mowat was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2/1st Hampshire Yeomanry in July 1916, and was attached for service with the 15th (Service) Battalion (2nd Portsmouth), Hampshire Regiment. He served with the latter in the French theatre of war from September 1916, and advanced to Temporary Captain. Mowat’s brother Second Lieutenant R. J. D. Mowat also served during the Great War with the Hampshire Yeomanry and was killed whilst attached to the M.G.C., 24 September 1918.

Sold with a telegraph from recipient to his family address in Southampton, stating that he was ‘safe and well’, dated 5 July 1918; a photographic image of recipient in uniform, and copied service papers.