Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant Colonel M. H. S. Willis, Suffolk Regiment, attached 1st Battalion, Nigeria Regiment

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Capt. M. H. S. Willis. Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. H. S. Willis.) generally good very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Suffolk Regiment.

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D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1916: ‘Capt. Montague Harry Sherwood Willis, Suff. R., attd. Nigeria R.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 31 May 1916.

Montague Harry Sherwood Willis was born in Farnham, Surrey in January 1882. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment in April 1903, and advanced to Lieutenant in October 1905. In 1908 Willis was serving attached to the Gold Coast Regiment, and was a Freemason who was a member of the Northern Nigerian Lodge at Zungeru in 1911. Willis served during the Great War attached to the 1st Battalion, Nigeria Regiment in the Cameroons from 20 September 1914. He advanced to Lieutenant Colonel, and died in Folkestone in January 1946.