Auction Catalogue

27 & 28 June 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 950

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28 June 2012

Hammer Price:
£170

Four: Captain Eric Herbert Wootten Wootten, General Service Corps, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt., I.A.R.O.); War and Africa Service Medals (138147 E. H. W. Wootten) officially impressed; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Union of South Africa, reverse engraved, ‘Capt. E. H. W. Wootten, G.S.C.’, mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (4) £150-200

Eric Herbert Wootten Wootten was granted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd (Presidency) Battalion Calcutta Volunteer Rifles on 1 April 1913 and was advanced to Captain on 1 March 1915 and Major on 1 October 1920. For his services in the Great War he was awarded the British War Medal. Later living in South Africa, he served in the Union Forces during the Second World War, ranked as a War Substantive Captain in the General Service Corps. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Union of South Africa) by the Government Gazette of 20 October 1944.

The medal group to Captain E. H. W. Wootten, are featured in
The Efficiency Decoration, by J. M. A. Tamplin.

Sold with copied research.