Miniature Medals
The group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Colonel B. C. Fairfax, Durham Light Infantry and Chinese Regiment
The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel; China 1900, 1 clasp, Rel. of Pekin; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; China, Empire, Order of the Striped Tiger, silver-gilt and enamel; United States of America, Military Order of the Dragon, with integral top Pagoda suspension bar, the first seven mounted as worn, the last loose, generally good very fine (8) £400-£500
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002 (when sold alongside his full-sized Military Order of the Dragon)
C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1918.
Bryan Charles Fairfax served with the China Expeditionary Force with the 1st Chinese Regiment, and was present at the Relief of Pekin. He subsequently served in South Africa during the latter part of the Boer War from 1901-02, in command of the Durham Light Infantry company of the Burma Mounted Rifles, and was present at the operations in Transvaaal and Cape Colony, December 1901, and in the operations in Orange River Colony, January to May 1902. Re-employed in the Great War, he served on the Staff on the Western Front as Assistant Quartermaster General and Advisor to the Chinese Labour Corps from August 1914 to February 1915, before being given the command of the 17th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment in February 1915. He was wounded, and for his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 24 December 1917 and 9 July 1919), was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Chinese Order of the Striped Tiger 3rd Class and created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
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The group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Colonel B. C. Fairfax, Durham Light Infantry and Chinese Regiment
The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel; China 1900, 1 clasp, Rel. of Pekin; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; China, Empire, Order of the Striped Tiger, silver-gilt and enamel; United States of America, Military Order of the Dragon, with integral top Pagoda suspension bar, the first seven mounted as worn, the last loose, generally good very fine (8) £400-£500
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002 (when sold alongside his full-sized Military Order of the Dragon)
C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1918.
Bryan Charles Fairfax served with the China Expeditionary Force with the 1st Chinese Regiment, and was present at the Relief of Pekin. He subsequently served in South Africa during the latter part of the Boer War from 1901-02, in command of the Durham Light Infantry company of the Burma Mounted Rifles, and was present at the operations in Transvaaal and Cape Colony, December 1901, and in the operations in Orange River Colony, January to May 1902. Re-employed in the Great War, he served on the Staff on the Western Front as Assistant Quartermaster General and Advisor to the Chinese Labour Corps from August 1914 to February 1915, before being given the command of the 17th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment in February 1915. He was wounded, and for his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 24 December 1917 and 9 July 1919), was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Chinese Order of the Striped Tiger 3rd Class and created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
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