Medals & Coins, Arms & Militaria - 19th October 2016

Lot 21

Five medals to Colin Knox Muspratt

Estimate £100 - £150 | Hammer £320

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Description

Five medals to Colin Knox Muspratt, Hampshire Regiment: The Order of St John, Serving Brother's breast badge, 3rd type; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal, oak leaves (CAPTAIN C.K. MUSPRATT); Defence Medal; Service Medal of the Order of St John (26588 CPS/OFF/ C.K. MUSPRATT. No 1 DIS. S.J.A.B. 1943), with five year bar, engraved in plain capitals; mounted for wearing and accompanied by mounted miniature group. Very fine.

Educated Sherborne School and New College Oxford. Served with 2/7 Territorial Battalion Hampshire Regiment during the 1914-18 War. Later volunteered for further service in the Caucasus. M.I.D. Post war served in Colonial Civil Service Malaya and China. Contracted sleeping sickness. Joined St John Ambulance for 1939-45 War, Serving Brother and Corps Officer. Lecturer in Civil Defence and Home Guard. Working knowledge of 15 languages.