Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War C.M.G., D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General C. M. Carpenter, R.E., Chief Engineer, 4th Army Corps, British Armies in France 1918

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Capt. C. M. Carpenter, R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. C. M. Carpenter) the last five mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £1400-1600

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916, 4 January 1917, 15 May 1917, 11 December 1917, and 20 May 1918.

Charles Murray Carpenter was born on 18 August 1870, and entered the Royal Engineers on 25 July 1890, becoming Lieutenant in July 1893 and Captain in April 1901. He served with the Royal Engineers in China diring the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and was present at the relief of Pekin (Medal with clasp). Promoted to Major in July 1910, he served during the Great War in France and Belgium from 9 August 1914 until 11 November 1918. He was Commanding Royal Engineer of the 9th Division from October 1915 to January 1916, and of the 17th Division from January 1916 to 7 April 1918, after which he served on the Staff as Chief Engineer, 4th Army Corps, British Armies in France, until February 1919 (C.M.G. 1918, D.S.O. 1916, despatches 5 times, Bt. Lt.-Colonel 3 June 1917). Carpenter, who ended the war as a Temporary Brigadier-General, died in London on 18 March 1942.