Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Great War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Captain N. F. Woodroffe, 9th London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles)

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 1st type, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., 9/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, Territorial, reverse officially dated ‘1944’; together with corresponding miniatures, nearly extremely fine or better (16) £250-300

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Efficiency Decoration London Gazette 17 August 1944.

Captain Norman Frederick Woodroffe received a gunshot wound to the head on 21 April 1915 at Hill 60. It was in this action that Second Lieutenant Woolley, also of the 9th London Regiment, gained the award of the Victoria Cross. On recovering from this wound Woodroffe was posted to No.10 District, Eastern Command, from 23 September 1916 until the end of the war, in the rank of Staff Captain, serving in Egypt and Palestine. During the Second War he served with the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers. Sold with copied research detail taken from his P.R.O. correspondence file.