Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant G. B. C. Northey, Devonshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. G. B. C. Northey. Devon. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. B. C. Northey.); together with a Ceylon bronze medal for overseas volunteers, engraved ‘G. B. C. Northey’, good very fine (4) £120-£160

Gilbert Battams Cornish Northey was born in 1892 at Tavistock, Devon, the son of Gilbert and Lilie Northey. A Tea Planter in Ceylon at the time of the outbreak of the Great War, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 10th (Service) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment and served with them in France from 21 September 1915. His Battalion then immediately proceeded to Salonika where they were engaged in various actions against the Bulgarian forces including the Battle of Horseshoe Hill in 1916 and the Battles of Doiran in 1917 and 1918. He was advanced to Lieutenant on 1 July 1917 and to Acting Captain and Adjutant on 11 April 1919. He relinquished his commission on completion of service on 20 January 1921 and returned to Ceylon where he continued his work as a tea planter and more latterly as an iron and rubber merchant. Northey died in Totnes, Devon in 1945.