A Fine Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers 82


A Great War 1918 Salonika ‘V.C. action’ D.S.O. and Second War ‘1941’ Abyssinia Second Award Bar, inter-War O.B. E., ‘Gallipoli’ M.C. group of thirteen attributed to Colonel P. R. M. Mundy, South Wales Borderers, who served with the 4th, 1st and 2nd Battalions during the Great War and was wounded by a sniper in the Le Transloy sector 4 February 1917, and during the attack on the Grand Couronne, 18 September 1918. He was M.I.D. on numerous occasions, including during operations in Palestine in 1937, and went on to command the 6th Battalion, King’s African Rifles between the wars and the 1/4th Battalion with distinction during the Second War


Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with copy Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; he Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type, breast badge, hallmarks for London ‘1919’; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (89328 Cpl. G. Archer. R.F.A. [Sic]); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, both erased; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine, M.I.D. Oak Leaf (Lt. Col. P. R. M. Mundy. D.S.O. O.B.E. M.C. S.W.B.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze palm emblem and bronze star on riband, generally very fine (13)


£1,600-£2,000


D.S.O. London Gazette 1 February 1919 (Salonika)


D.S.O. Second Award Bar London Gazette 21 October 1941: ‘For highly distinguished services and gallantry in action, at Scroppa [Sic] in Southern Abyssinia on 30th March, 1941, this officer planned and carried out a brilliant and highly successful operation against an enemy force opposed to him. Almost the whole enemy force were destroyed or captured. 350 prisoners and 4 guns were taken. Lt. Colonel Mundy’s coolness and determined leadership was an inspiration to his entire command.’


O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1935. M.C. London Gazette 2 February 1916 (Gallipoli). M.I.D. London Gazette 28 January 1916 (Gallipoli), 23 July 1937 (Palestine), 1 April 1941 and 8 July 1943. France, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 21 July 1919.


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