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Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry 36


A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain A. Smith, King’s Own Royal Royal Lancaster Regiment, who served as Member of Parliament for Clitheroe, Nelson and Colne


The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Capt. A. Smith, R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. Smith) gilding almost all rubbed from OBE, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (4)


£200-£240 O.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919.


Albert Smith was born on 15 June 1867, and was first employed as a Mill boy at the age of 8. ‘From 1902 to 1912 he served on the Nelson Town Council and was Mayor of the Town from 1908 to 1910. In 1910 he succeeded Sir David J. Shackleton as M.P. for Clitheroe Division; however, his Parliamentary experience was interrupted by his voluntary enlistment in the Army in the first year of the Great War, and he had the distinction during the first few weeks of the war of being the only member of the Labour Party in Parliament to hold a commission in H.M. Forces. He saw active service as a Captain with the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Gallipoli, from where he was invalided home. For a time during the last war he was military representative in the Burnley Nelson and Colne area, but in 1917 he rejoined his battalion and finally left the Army on his completion of three years service. When the parliamentary borough of Nelson and Colne was formed in 1918, Captain Smith became its first M.P. He resigned in 1920, and subsequently served as a a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Lancashire for a good many years. He died at Nelson, Lancashire, in April 1942.’ (the recipient’s obituary from the Regimental Journal The Lion and the Rose, May 1942, refers).


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37


A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Oakley, 7th Hampshire Regiment and Labour Corps, late Hampshire Imperial Yeomanry


The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarked London 1918; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (14128 Tpr: J. G. Oakley, 47th Coy. 13th Impl: Yeo:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. J. G. Oakley.) mounted court-style, gilt worn on the first, otherwise good very fine (4)


£300-£400 O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919:


‘For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders’ M.I.D. London Gazette 11 December 1917


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John Gretton Oakley was born at Chislehurst, Kent, and served as a Trooper in the 47th Company, 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. This unit was known as Lord Donoughmore’s Horse and it was raised and outfitted by him. It is not very often that a Battalion surrenders in the field of battle, but during the Boer War this happened on several occasions due to the mobile guerilla warfare that took place. The 13th Imperial Yeomanry were ambushed by De-Wet’s Commando near Lindley and, after several days fighting from 27 -31 May 1900, the 13th raised the white flag and surrendered. They were taken to Nooitgedacht and from there parolled.


He was commissioned into the 7th Hampshire Regiment on 12 October 1914. As Acting Lieutenant in 1916 he was assigned to 87th Provisional Battalion; Temporary Captain, 19 March 1917, Deputy Assistant Director for Labour; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, Hampshire Regiment and Labour Corps, 24 February 1918. Sold with copied research.


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