Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War ‘Prisons Service’ O.B.E., Great War M.C. and Second Award Bar group of six awarded to Major B. S. K. Guise-Moores, Royal Garrison Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, reverse of the cross inscribed ‘Lieut. B. S. K. Guise-Moores. R.G.A. June 3rd 1916.’; 1914 Star (2. Lieut: B. S. K. G. Moores. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaves (Major B. S. K. G. Moores.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt. B. S. K. Guise-Moores. R.A.) good very fine (6) £1,400-£1,800

O.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1951: ‘Major, M.C., Governor, Class I, H.M. Prison, Wakefield, Yorkshire,’

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Bar to M.C. London Gazette 17 April 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed great courage and initiative in digging out under heavy fire a man who had been buried. He has at all times set a splendid example.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916 and 14 December 1917.

Bruce Samual Kirkman Guise-Moores was born on 20 February 1893. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 19 December 1913; Lieutenant, 9 June 1915; acting Captain, 20 December 1916; Captain, 3 November 1917; acting Major, 13 May 1917; reverted to Captain on 14 August 1918, but was promoted to Major at retirement on 6 July 1931. He served in France and Belgium from 20 September 1914 to 31 August 1918, and afterwards in India with 11th (H) Pack Battery, R.G.A.