Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Colonel The Hon. Frederick Arthur Wellesley, French Red Cross, late Coldstream Guards and Diplomatic Service

British War and Victory Medals (Hon. F. A. Wellesley); Romania, Order of the Star, 1st type, 3rd Class neck badge with swords, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, last with some enamel damage, very fine and better (3) £400-500

Frederick Arthur Wellesley was born on 24 May 1844, the 3rd son of the 1st Earl of Cowley. He entered the Coldstream Guards on 24 March 1863 and was appointed an Ensign and Lieutenant in August 1863. He was advanced to Lieutenant and Captain in October 1866 and Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1873. He was appointed one of Queen Victoria’s Aides-de-Camp with the rank of Colonel on 22 January 1878. He retired from the Army in January 1881. He was appointed Military Attaché at St. Petersburg on 24 July 1871 and Secretary of Embassy at Vienna on 29 April 1878, resigning in August 1879. During the Great War Colonel Wellesley served with the French Red Cross, entering France in February 1915.

Sold with the books (3): Recollections of a Soldier-Diplomat, by Col. The Hon. Frederick Wellesley - 2 copies, one with dust cover; and, With the Russians in Peace and War, by Colonel The Hon. F. A. Wellesley, half calf but with front cover detached; with additional copied research. Romanian Order not confirmed.