Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. R. Griffith, 1/4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (Lt: & Adjt: G. R. Griffith. R.W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. R. Griffith.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., complete with brooch bar, mounted court-style as worn, gilt worn on the first, otherwise nearly very fine (6) £300-£400

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, The Jim Henshaw Collection of Medals to the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Gronwyn Robert Griffith disembarked in France on 6 November 1914, as Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 4th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, but is entitled to the 1914 Star only.