Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 23rd November 2022

Lot 2

Now includes lot 1

Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £2800

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Description

NOTE: This lot now includes the CBE badge previously offered as lot 1

A family collection of medals, comprising: the O.B.E. group of seven awards to Captain (later Major) Malcolm Brown Bookey Riall, West Yorkshire Regiment: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Division, officer's breast badge, Britannia type, London 1919; Queen's South Africa Medal, first type (b), ghost dates, 6* clasps: Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (Lieut. M.B.B. RIALL. W. York: Rgt.), engraved; King's South Africa, two dated clasps (Lieut. M.B.B. RIALL. W. York: Rgt.), engraved; India General Service Medal 1908-35, first type, clasp: North West Frontier 1908 (Captn. M.B.B. Riall. 1st W. Y. Rgt), engraved; 1914-15 Star (CAPT: M.B.B. RIALL. W. YORK. R.); British War Medal and Victory Medal (CAPT. M.B.B. RIALL.), mounted for wearing, QSA and KSA in particular with scratching to obverse fields, otherwise all very fine or better. [7]

Together with an associated group attributed to Captain Arthur Bookey Riall, CBE, RAF Regiment, comprising: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, military division, Commander's neck badge, second type, in Garrard & Co case with neck ribands; 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 with oak leaf, Coronation 1953, all unnamed as issued, the last five mounted for wearing, very fine. [6]

M.B.B. Riall, served as a Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment during the Boer War, including the Battle of Spion Kop, and a Vaal Krantz and Pieter's Hill, and was mentioned in a despatch. He served with the first battalion in the campaign against the Mohmands in 1908. After arriving on the Western Front of the First World War 21/12/1914, he was severely wounded 10/08/1915 while leading a working party at the Hooge. Made O.B.E. in the 1919 Birthday Honours "for valuable services rendered in connection with the war"

* the 1908 Army list states entitlement to five clasps, but the QSA roll confirms six, and seems to indicate that Cape Colony was a later additional authorisation.