Five: Lieutenant-Colonel H. T. Stebbing, Royal Garrison Artillery

1914 Star (Lieut. H. T. Stebbing. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. T. Stebbing.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, traces of verdigris to Star, contact marks and minor edge bruising, otherwise very fine or better (5) £200-£240

Hugh Theodore Stebbing was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 25 July 1906. Seconded to a Signal Company in India on 1 May 1914, he served with the 3rd Signal Company during the Great War on the Western Front from October 1914, and was promoted Captain on 30 October of that year. He was further promoted Major on 3 May 1926, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 31 October 1934. Placed on the half-pay list on 31 October 1938, he retired on 30 April 1939, before seeing further service as a Lieutenant-Colonel during the Second World War with the Pioneer Corps. He appears on the medal rolls for the 1935 Jubilee Medal and for the 1937 Coronation Medal as Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding R.A. Fixed Defences, South Western Ports. He died at Brixham, Devon, on 5 June 1946.