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

An interesting Great War Mesopotamia D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Major-General Sir Digby Shuttleworth, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Indian Army

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Genl.); Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935; French Croix de Guerre 1914-18, with bronze palme; Russian Cross of St George, 4th class, the reverse officially numbered ‘577557’, court mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £700-900

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For valuable services in connection with Military Operations in Mesopotamia.’

Croix de Guerre London Gazette 26 September 1917. Russian Cross of St George confirmed in Kelly’s Handbook.

Digby Inglis Shuttleworth was born on 23 August 1873, son of Allen Thornton Shuttleworth, Indian Forestry Service, late Indian Navy, who won the Gold Albert Medal for saving hundreds of lives in many rescues off the coast of Bombay in the mid and late 1860’s. Digby Shuttleworth was educated at Bedford School and the R.M.C. Sandhurst. Gazetted to the Indian Army, he was appointed to the 10th Jat Regiment in August 1896, and to the 1/3rd Gurkhas in in 1898. Attached to the King’s African Rifles from March 1901 to April 1903, he was promoted to Captain in 1905. He graduated from Staff College in 1911 and served in India as Brigade Major and G.S.O.2, 1912 to October 1916. Thereafter he was employed with the Indian Expeditionary Force and served in Iraq, North West Persia and the Caucasus, in command of 39th Infantry Brigade, and subsequently of the 83rd Infantry Brigade, Army of the Black Sea, 1917-19 (C.B.E., D.S.O., despatches four times).

Appointed President of the Inter-Allied Commission of Control in Constantinople (Ottoman War Office) in 1920 and Brigade Commander, Allied Forces of Occupation, Shuttleworth commanded the 83rd Infantry Brigade at Chanak in the Dardanelles during the confused fighting that followed the break-up of the Ottoman Empire. For his services during this critical period he was mentioned in despatches and subsequently awarded the C.B. in 1925. Having returned to India in 1924, he took command of the Jullundur Brigade until 1929, when he was promoted to Major-General and appointed Deputy Adjutant and Quarter-Master General of Northern Command, India. He was appointed to his final command in 1932 as Commander of the Kohat District which he held until his retirement in 1936. Major-General Shuttleworth was made a K.C.I.E. in 1937 and died on 15 May 1948.