Auction Catalogue

5 December 2024

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 55

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To be sold on: 5 December 2024

Estimate: £1,000–£1,400

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A Great War D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Brigadier K. F. Dunsterville, Royal Garrison Artillery

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Capt. K. F. Dunsterville. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Major K. F. Dunsterville.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Fifth Class breast badge, gold and enamel, unmarked, mounted for wear, contact marks, very fine (9) £1,000-£1,400

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazettes 13 June 1916; 25 March 1918; 30 January 1918.

Knightley Fletcher Dunsterville was born in Murree, Punjab, India on 24 June 1883. Educated at Cheltenham College and the R.M.A. Woolwich, he was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1902. Appointed Captain on 30 October 1914, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 April 1915 and later in Italy, Egypt and Salonika. Appointed Major in 1917, he was later appointed a Cavalier of the Order of the Crown (Italy). Post war he continued to serve and was appointed Brigadier in 1938 before retiring in 1940, after which he was appointed to the British Technical Commission in Canada.

Sold with copied research.