Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel P. L. Grove, Cheshire Regiment

British War Medal 1914-20, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, in Aucoc, Paris case of issue, last with slight enamel damage, very fine and better (2)
£120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 26 November 1918 (despatch of General Sir Charles Monro, C-in-C. India). ‘Lt-Col. (temp.), Cheshire Regt.’

France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier London Gazette 6 November 1918. ‘Major (temporary Colonel), Cheshire Regiment.’

Percy Lynes Groves was born on 16 September 1871. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Cheshire Regiment from the Militia on 17 January 1891 and promoted to Lieutenant in October 1894 and Captain in June 1900. Served as Adjutant of the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, August 1900-August 1904. Promoted to Major in September 1912 and appointed Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, July 1915-May 1918; and Temporary Colonel, May-June 1918. On 3 June 1918 he received the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 19 December 1918) ‘for valuable services rendered in connection with the war in India’. Grove served as Instructor (graded as G.S.O. 2) at the School of Musketry, India, October 1911-July 1915. The British War Medal and the Legion of Honour were his only wartime awards. Post-war he was Commandant of the Small Arms School, India, May 1918-May 1922. Latterly living in Tenterden, Kent he was Assistant District Commissioner in the Boy Scout movement, a member of the Parochial Church Council and a member of the Church Assembly. Colonel Grove died of natural causes at Tenterden in August 1943. With a quantity of copied research.