Orders, Decorations and Medals

Brigadier-General John Byron, C.B., C.M.G., Royal Artillery
Riband bar, buckram, mounted on card, bearing the ribbons: Order of the Bath; Order of St. Michael & St. George; India General Service 1895-1902; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Italy, Order of St. Maurice & St. Lazarus; Italy, War Cross; with cloth badge, good condition
£20-30

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Ribbons from the Collection of the late Judge Henry Pownall.

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Riband bar attributed to John Bryron who was born in 1872. After attending the Royal Military Academy, he entered the Royal Artillery in 1893. He served with the Malakand Field Force in 1897 and in the Boer War and was mentioned in despatches in both conflicts. Appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1915, he was Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Arsenal, 1914-15; held a Special Appointment with the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-16; was Deputy-Director of Artillery at the War Office, 1916-18, and commanded the Divisional Artillery in Italy, 1918-19. After the war he commanded the Royal Artillery in Palestine and Egypt, 1920-24. Placed on Retired Pay in 1925. For his war services he was awarded the C.B. in 1918 and C.M.G. in 1919. Brigadier-General Byron died in 1944.

With some copied notes and a photograph of his insignia.