Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of nine miniature dress medals attributed to Brigadier-General Claude Stuart Rome, 11th Hussars and Queen’s Bays

Order of St. Michael and St. George, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., 18ct. gold and enamel, complete with top bar, minor enamel damage; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-8; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps; 1914-15 Star trio, M.I.D. oak leaf; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 4th Class with swords, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, rosette on ribbon, mounted as worn, very fine and better (9) £200-250

C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

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

M.I.D. London Gazette 6 July 1917, 12 January 1918, 14 June 1918, 22 January 1919.

Claude Stuart Rome was born in Queensland on 14 January 1875, the eldest son of Thomas Rome J.P. of Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire. Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the 11th Hussars in 1875. Promoted Lieutenant in 1899, he saw service on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897-98 and thence in the Boer War. In the latter he was on the Staff, afterwards Adjutant of the 1st Johannesburg Mounted Rifles from 10 January 1901. He saw service in Rhodesia, April-May 1900, participated in operations in Transvaal to the west of Pretoria, August-September 1900, including actions at Elands River, 4-6 August. Operations in Transvaal, Orange River Colony and the Zululand frontier of Natal followed. Rome married the Hon. Grace Loudenne Blythe, 2nd daughter of the 1st Lord Blyth in 1905. He was promoted Captain in 1905 and Major in September 1916. He entered the Gallipoli theatre of war on 20 April 1915 and was later with the Egypt Expeditionary Force. Rome was placed in command of the 6th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers (T.F.), 15 October 1915-11 April 1917 and was afterwards on the Staff, being appointed Temporary Brigadier-General in April 1917. For his wartime services he received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 June 1917, was awarded the C.M.G., D.S.O. and Order of the White Eagle and was four times mentioned in despatches. In 1920 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Queen’s Bays. Rome retired from the Army in 1925 and died on 22 March 1951. Sold with a quantity of copied research.