Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Western Front D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel L. E. Warren, Royal Field Artillery

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. (Lt. Col.) good very fine (5)
£1000-1200

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 17 February 1915 and 14 December 1917.

Lionel Edward Warren entered the Royal Artillery in 1899 and served almost immediately in South Africa during the Boer War (Medal with 5 clasps). During the Great War, he saw service in France and Belgium, with 58th Battery R.F.A., from 6 October 1914 until February 1915, and from July 1915 until October 1918, latterly in command of 79 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.