Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Six: Major J. L. Clowes, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, attached Machine Gun Corps

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Belgian Croix de Guerre; Belgian Civic Medal, gilt; Belgian Medal of the National Committee for Assistance and Food Supply, 3rd class, silvered-bronze, good very fine and better (6) £150-200

John Legh Clowes was educated at Eton and the Central Technical College, South Kensington. Commissioned into the 6th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant soon after the outbreak of hostilties, he served in France and the Balkans, latterly as a Major attached to the Machine Gun Corps, and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre.