The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards

Family Group:

Pair: Veterinary Surgeon First Class Major M. F. M. Case, attached Royal Artillery, who was the Senior Veterinary Officer in Egypt in 1888 and was awarded the Order of the Medjidieh Third Class
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Gemaizah 1888 (Vet. Surgn. M. F. M. Case G/B R.H.A.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued; sometime mounted for wear but both detached from the ribbon brooch which has in addition the ribbon for the Third Class Insignia of the Order of the Medjidieh, contact marks, about very fine

Three: Gunner M. T. W. Case, South African Mounted Rifles Field Artillery Battery
1914-15 Star (Gnr. M. T. W. Case. S.A.M.R. - F.A.B.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Gnr. M. T. W. Case. S.A.M.R. - F.A.B.) official correction to second initial on 1914-15 Star, which is over stamped, star polished, otherwise nearly very fine

Pair: Second Officer A. M. B. Case, Mercantile Marine, later temporary Sub Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Alfred M. B. Case) good very fine

Pair: Nursing Sister Miss Beattrice T. case, French Red Cross
British War and Victory Medals (B. T. Case.) good very fine (lot) £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards.

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Middleton Frederick Mallet Case joined the Army as a Veterinary Surgeon Second Class on 11 January 1868, and was promoted Veterinary Surgeon First Class on 14 July 1881. He served at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir in 1882, and at the Battle of Gemaizah in 1888. He appears on the medal roll for the Egypt and Sudan medal for serving with “G” Battery in “B” Brigade, Royal Artillery. He is noted on the medal roll for the Gemaizah 1888 clasp as the Senior Veterinary Officer in Egypt, Head Quarters Cairo. For his services in Egypt at the action at Gemaizah on 20 December 1888 he was awarded the Third Class of the Order of the Medjidieh (London Gazette 14 March 1890). He retired in 1895, and died at Ramsgate on 8 September 1927, aged 87.

Middleton Thomas Wythe Case, the son of the above, was born at Christchurch, Hampshire, in 1881. He emigrated to South Africa prior to the outbreak of the Great War and volunteered for service in the South African Mounted Rifles, serving with their Field Artillery Battery. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1924, and in the 1939 Register was listed as residing at 25 Spencer Square, Ramsgate, describing himself as Retired Gunner, South African. He died in Kent in September 1967.

Alfred Mallett Basil Case, son of the first and brother of the above, was born at Woolwich in 1883. He received his Board of Trade Certificate of Competency as Second Mate on 22 December 1905, and as First Mate on 4 October 1911. He served during the Great War as 2nd Officer in the Merchant Marine. He was commissioned Temporary Sub Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve on 9 May 1919, for service in R.F.A. Sunhill in North Russia on 30 May 1919. He then also served in S.S. Walton Belle, a minesweeping paddle steamer, and R.F.A. Lobster. His Commission was terminated on 7 November 1919. He continued in service in the Mercantile Marine and was tragically killed in an accident at sea in S.S. Ovingdean Grange on 25 April 1926, having fallen from the Boat Deck to the Main Deck, and died of a fractured skull.

Beatrice Theodora Case, the daughter of the first and sister of the above two, served during the Great War as a Nursing Sister with the French Red Cross in France from November 1914.