19th Nov, 2013 0:00
AUTUMN COUNTRY HOUSE SALE
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▲ Major-General James Mansergh Wentworth M
a group of eleven medals:
CB military, cased,
CBE military, cased,
General Service Medal with North West Frontier, 1930-31 clasp, to Lieutenant J M W Martin RA
India General Service Medal, with 1937-39 North West Frontier clasp,
to Capt. J MW Martin 8 Lt. Cav.
the 1939-1945 Star,
the Africa Star,
the Burma Star,
the Defence Medal,
1939-1945 War Medal,
Coronation Medal, and
miniature group
James Mansergh Wentworth Martin (1902-1986) was the elder son of James Wentworth Martin of Castle Jane, Glanmire, County Cork and educated at Charterhouse, RMA Woolwich andjoined the Royal Field Artillery in 1922;
West African Frontier Force 1925-1927;
Private Secretary to Governor of Assam 1928-1929;
transferred to King George V's Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army 1930;
Staff College, Camberley 1936; World War II 1939-1945;
operations in Iraq, Meerut Cavalry Bde 1938-1943;
Brig, General Staff to Gen Alexander, 15 Army Group, Italy 1943-1944;
Second in Command, 1 Indian Armoured Bde, 14 Army, Burma 1944-1945; Commander, 1 Indian Armoured Bde, India 1945-1947;
transferred to Royal Scots Greys 1948;
Chief of Staff, British Troops in Trieste 1948-1949;
Commander, 9 Armoured Bde 1949-1951;
Deputy Chief of Staff to Marshal Alphonse Juin, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces Central Europe, Fontainebleau, France 1951-1953;
General Officer Commanding, Salisbury Plain District 1953-1956; retired 1956.
Sold for £1,300
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Auction: AUTUMN COUNTRY HOUSE SALE, 19th Nov, 2013
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