Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Commission and Bestowal Documents (10), comprising Commission Document appointing J. S. Ferguson Fowke, Esquire a Major in the Infantry, dated 21 May 1866; Bestowal Document appointing Major-General Arthur Arnold Barrett, C.B. a Knight Commander of the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, dated 14 August 1908; Bestowal Document appointing General Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., A.D.C. a Knight Grand Cross of the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, dated 3 June 1918, in Central Chancery envelope; Warrant dispensing with the Ceremony of the Personal Investiture of General Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., A.D.C. as a Knight Grand Cross of the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, dated 3 June 1918; Bestowal Document appointing General Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett, G.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., A.D.C. a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, dated 1 January 1920; Bestowal Document appointing Major Nicholas Hugh Lawrence Watts, Indian Army an Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 3 June 1929; Bestowal Document appointing Lieutenant John Hughes, Royal Navy an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 9 June 1949, with Central Chancery and Buckingham Palace enclosures, in Central Chancery envelope addressed to ‘Lieutenant John Hughes, M.B.E., R.N., H.M.S. “Gamecock”, R.N. Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton, Warwicks’; Mentioned in Despatches Certificate named to ‘Mr. John Hughes, Boatswain, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Jade and dated 14 January 1941; Commission Document appointing Charles Laws a Second Lieutenant in the Home Guard, dated 2 October 1952; and a Bestowal Document on vellum appointing Louis Victor, Fauque de Jonquières a Chevalier of the Princely State of Hohenlohe’s House Order of the Phoenix, dated Paris, 25 September 1816, with wax seal intact, generally good condition, the last rare (10) £80-120