Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. group of six awarded to Captain H. S. Ganderton, Devonshire (Fortress) Company, Royal Engineers, later County Surveyor of Wiltshire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (Capt. H. S. Ganderton. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. S. Ganderton.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, with crushed named card boxes of issue for the Great War awards, nearly extremely fine (6) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 1 January 1949: Howard Sims Ganderton Esq., County Surveyor of Wiltshire.

Howard Sims Ganderton was born at Aston, Birmingham, in 1890. A Surveyor employed by Torquay Borough Council, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire (Fortress) Engineers, Works Companies, Royal Engineers on 1 February 1912, and was mobilised for War service in the 1/3 Devon Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers at Torquay on 4 August 1914 and was appointed Acting Captain. He embarked for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 17 October 1915 and was employed on construction work at Imbros and Mudros. He embarked at Mudros for Alexandria on 31 January 1916, and served as Officer in Charge, 1/3 Devon Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers, Warden Saw Mills, Camp A, North Alexandria from 16 March 1916. With the designation of unit altered to 569th (Devon) Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers, he moved to Rafa, Palestine, on 31 October 1917 and was employed on construction work there, moving finally to Beirut on 25 October 1918. Disembodied on 30 September 1921, he relinquished his commission, retaining the rank of captain. Subsequently successively appointed Assistant County Surveyor Cornwall, Assistant County Surveyor Wiltshire, and County Surveyor Wiltshire in 1927, he was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935, and the Coronation Medal in 1953. Appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1949, ‘in recognition of his work during the Second World War’, he retired as County Surveyor, Wiltshire County Council, in March 1954, and died at Bradford-on-Avon on 29 September 1954, aged 63.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and copied research.