A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps

Four: Captain E. S. Lemass, Army Service Corps, latterly British Judge of the International Court, Tangier, Morocco, 1949-57

1914-15 Star (Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, Grand Officer’s set of insignia, neck badge and breast star in silver, gold and enamel, with Arabic marking on the reverse, star with slight enamel damage, generally good very fine (5) £350-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps.

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Edwin Stephen Lemass was born on 26 December 1890, the son of Peter Edmond Lemass, I.S.O., L.R.C.S.I., of Monkstown, Co. Dublin. He was educated at University School and Trinity College, Dublin, and called to the Irish Bar in 1913. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the A.S.C. on 1 October 1915 and promoted to Lieutenant in November 1915 and Acting Captain in February 1919. He served in France and North Russia (Archangel Force), being released from service in November 1919. In 1920 he was appointed to the Ministry of Justice in Egypt; in 1921 he was the Private Secretary to the Judicial Adviser; then Assistant and Legal Secretary to Judicial Advisers, 1921-33; Judge of the Mixed International Courts of Egypt, 1932; Counsellor of the Mixed Court of Appeal, Alexandria, 1939-49; Chairman of the United Forces Welfare Clubs Organisation, Alexandria, 1940-47; and British Judge of the International Court, Tangier, Morocco, 1949-57. Awarded the Order of the Nile, Grand Officer class in 1949. His Honour Judge Lemass died on 12 April 1970.

With original ‘permission to wear’ document for the Order of the Nile, and copied service papers and other research.