Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant Colonel L. C. Irwin, 12th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, who was M.I.D. for Salonika and served as Commandant of a Prisoner of War Camp for Turkish soldiers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (23242 Tpr: L. Irwin. 28th Coy. Imp: Yeo:) unofficial rivets between 3rd and 4th clasps; 1914-15 Star (Capt. L. C. Irwin. Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major L. C. Irwin.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze palm emblem on riband, mounted as originally worn, centre of last dented, otherwise generally very fine or better (5) £300-£400

M.I.D. London Gazette 11 June 1918 (Salonika).


Lyndon Corrie Irwin was born in Rawalpindi, India, in December 1879, and educated at Teignmouth Grammar School, Devon and Reading University. He attested for the 28th (Bedfordshire) Company, 4th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry at Reading in January 1901. Irwin served in South Africa, February - August 1901, and was invalided, 15 August 1901. He moved to Balquihidder, Perthshire, Scotland, and was embodied as a Sergeant in the Scottish Horse Brigade, R.A.M.C. in September 1914. Irwin was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 12th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in January 1915. He advanced to Temporary Captain in April 1915, and served with the Battalion in the French theatre of war from September 1915, before moving with the Battalion to Salonika the following November. Irwin subsequently advanced to Acting Lieutenant Colonel and transferred to the Labour Corps August in 1918, with whom he served as a Commandant of a Prisoner of War Camp for Turkish soldiers. He relinquished his commission in June 1920.

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French Croix de Guerre unconfirmed.