Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Dardanelles Operations’ C.B., C.M.G. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General S. H. Winter, late Army Service Corps, who served as Deputy Quartermaster on Sir Ian Hamilton’s Staff, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B., (Military) Companion’s breast badge, converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamel, with full neck riband; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamel, with full neck riband; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Col: S. H. Winter. A.S.C.) engraved naming, area of erasure before rank; 1914-15 Star (Brig. Gen. S. H. Winter.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Brig. Gen. S. H. Winter.); together with the related miniature awards, the CB and CMG badges both gold and enamel with integral gold riband buckles, obverse central medallions depressed on both the full-sized CB and CMG, and minor enamel damage to one arm of CMG, generally very fine and better (6) £1,200-£1,600

C.B. London Gazette 23 June 1915.

C.M.G. London Gazette 8 November 1915:
‘For distinguished service in the Field during the operations at the Dardanelles.’

M.I.D. London Gazettes 5 August 1915 and 5 November 1915 (both Dardanelles).

Samuel Henry Winter was born on 4 July 1854 and was commissioned Sub Assistant-Commissary in the Control Department on 9 April 1873, being promoted Assistant Commissary on 9 April 1875. He was advanced Assistant Commissary-General with the honorary rank of Major in the Commissariat and Transport Staff on 1 August 1886 and was appointed to the Army Service Corps on its formation on 11 December 1888. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on the Supernumerary List on 1 August 1891. Promoted Brevet Colonel in 1899, he served in South Africa during the Boer War on the Staff in the Cape Colony in 1899 to 1900, and was promoted Colonel in 1903. He retired in 1909, but saw further service during the Great War as Deputy Quartermaster on Sir Ian Hamilton’s Staff in the Dardanelles from March 1915, with the rank of Brigadier-General. Invalided with dysentery on 7 August 1915, for his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches, and was appointed a Companion of Order of the Bath and the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He died on 6 June 1938.

Sold with the recipient’s pay wallet, with embroidered initials ‘S. H. W.’, with inside label inscribed ‘Colonel S. H. Winter, C.B., C.M.G., c/o Lloyds Bank (Cox & King Branch) Pall Mall London SW1’; and an unrelated mounted group of four Second World War miniature dress medals, comprising 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45.