Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain R. W. Lamb, Royal Field Artillery, who was Mentioned in Despatches

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. R. W. Lamb, R.F.A.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. R. W. Lamb, R.F.A.) engraved naming; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 1906 (Lieut: R. W. Lamb. R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt: R. W. Lamb. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. R. W. Lamb.) the pre-Great War awards mounted as worn, the Great War awards loose, traces of verdigirs to Star and VM, contact marks and minor edge bruising, cleaned, generally very fine (7) £1,600-£2,000

M.C. London Gazette 23 June 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915.

Reginald Wilfred Lamb was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 22 December 1898 and was promoted Lieutenant on 16 February 1901. He served with the Royal Field Artillery in South Africa during the Boer War, during the operations in the Orange River Colony from the outbreak of War to April 1901, and again from November 1901 to March 1902; and in the Transvaal from April to November 1901, and again from March to May 1902. He subsequently served during the operations in North Nigeria in 1906, and was promoted Captain on 14 November 1906. Appointed Adjutant at the Bradford depot on 12 April 1907, he served with the 7th Divisional Ammunition Column during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 October 1914, and for his services during the Great War was both Mentioned in Field Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May 1915, and was awarded the Military Cross.

Sold with the recipient’s original Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, named ‘Royal Field Artillery, Capt. R. W. Lamb, R. of O.’, and dated 31 May 1915, with tear, this repaired with sellotape.