Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Major R. C. Rome, Royal Field Artillery

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut: R. C. Rome. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major R. C. Rome.); Coronation 1911; Russia, Order of St Vladimir, 4th Class breast badge with swords, silver-gilt and enamels, unmarked, lacking reverse centre; Russia, Order of St Anne, 4th Class breast badge, bronze-gilt and enamels, marks for Dimitri Osipov, generally good very fine (7) £2000-2400

M.C. London Gazette 18 February 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 17 February 1915; 30 June 1916 (East Africa); and 7 October 1918 (Russia).

Robert Cowper Rome was born in Glasgow in 1889. He served during the war of 1914-19 as Adjutant 15th Brigade, R.F.A. in France, 26 August 1914 to 10 March 1915, 1 June 1915 to 7 December 1915, and 15 March 1917 to 1 June 1917; in British, German and Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, and Northern Rhodesia, 24 December 1915 to 3 July 1916; and in Russia, 23 August 1917 to 26 February 1918. His application for the 1914 Star was confirmed by the Secretary, Restriction of Enemy Supplies Department (Russian Section).