Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. V. Hunt, Army Service Corps, late Behar Light Horse and Shropshire Light Infantry

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, lacking integral top riband bar; 1914 Star (Capt: G. V. Hunt. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. G. V. Hunt.) good very fine (4) £700-£900

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

M.I.D., London Gazette 4 January 1917.

Granville Vere Hunt was born in India at Mian Mar, Bengal, on 2 April 1875. He was commissioned from the Behar Light Horse as 2nd Lieutenant into the Shropshire Light Infantry on 19 September 1900, and transferred to the Army Service Corps on 19 September 1901; Lieutenant, 19 September 1902; Captain, 1 May 1905; Major, 30 October 1914; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, 11 January 1917 to 2 March 1920. He served in France and Flanders from 23 September 1914, at which time he was an Inspector of Subsidised Transport Vehicles, and in command of Heavy Repair Shops from 11 January 1917. Sold with copied Medal Index Card and some other research.