Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Montgomery, Royal Army Service Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (14245 Q.M. Sgt. T. H. Montgomery, 13th Impl: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Capt. T. H. Montgomery, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major T. H. Montgomery); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style as worn, lacquered, nearly extremely fine (7) £1,400-£1,800

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010.

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January and 24 December, 1917.

Thomas Hassard Montgomery was born in 1872 and served with the 13th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War, in operations in Cape Colony and Orange River Colony (Queen’s Medal with 2 clasps), being commissioned temporary Lieutenant (Quartermaster) on 6 June 1900. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was granted a temporary commission in the Army Service Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, attaining the rank of Temporary Major. For his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. During the Second World War he held a Regular Army Emergency Commission, dated 3 November 1939, as Lieutenant, and was advanced local Lieutenant-Colonel on 4 August 1941. He resided at Cadogan House, Shrewsbury, and was a Justice of the Peace.