The Donald G. Mellen Collection

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant H. N. P. Sloman, 11th Battalion Rifle Brigade

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘H. N. P. Sloman, 11th Bn. The Rifle Brigade, August 14th 1917’; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Harold Sloman) mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £800-900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Donald G. Mellen Collection.

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M.C. London Gazette 26 September 1917. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When commanding one of the assaulting companies he was wounded by a shell half an hour before the attack. He led his company in the attack, however, until he fainted from loss of blood, setting a splendid example to all ranks by his great pluck and determination.’

Harold Newnham Penrose Sloman was born on 22 April 1885, the son of Rev. A. Sloman, M.A., Headmaster of Birkenhead School. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, gaining an M.A. Served as Form Master at Radley College, 1908-12 and Headmaster at the Sydney Grammar School, 1913-20. During the war he was on the Censorship Staff at Sydney, 1916 and then on active service with the Rifle Brigade, 1916-19 - being wounded and awarded the M.C. After the war he resumed teaching, becoming Head of Modern Side and Modern Sixth Form Master, Rugby School, 1921-22; and Headmaster, Tonbridge School, 1922-39. During the Second World War he worked in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, 1940-41; Home Guard, 1940, and was Temporary Assistant Master at St. Paul’s School, 1941-47. He was then Educational Advisor to the British Council and the British Community Council of Argentina, 1947-49 and Temporary Assistant Master at Charterhouse, 1950-54. A noted author; latterly living at 13 Priory Mansions, Drayton Gardens, S.W.10, he died on 25 July 1965. With some copied research.