Fourteen: Attributed to General Sir Ivor Maxse, Coldstream Guards, a Great War Corps Commander, Order of the Bath, Military Division, gold and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.), silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel; Queen's Sudan; Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Def. of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg; 1914 Star, with bar; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf; Coronation 1911; France, Legion of Honour, silver and enamel, gold centre, with riband rosette; Belgium, Order of the Crown, silver and enamel, gold centre, with riband rosette; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1916, with two palms; Belgium Croix de Guerre; Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, six clasps, Sudan 1897, Abu Hamed, The Atbara, Khartoum, Sudan 1899, Gedid, enamel work slightly chipped in places, good very fine, mounted Court-style as worn in Spink, London leather case, the lid gilt inscribed, 'I.M., Guards Club' (14)

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Fourteen: Attributed to General Sir Ivor Maxse, Coldstream Guards, a Great War Corps Commander, Order of the Bath, Military Division, gold and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.), silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel; Queen's Sudan; Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Def. of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg; 1914 Star, with bar; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf; Coronation 1911; France, Legion of Honour, silver and enamel, gold centre, with riband rosette; Belgium, Order of the Crown, silver and enamel, gold centre, with riband rosette; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1916, with two palms; Belgium Croix de Guerre; Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, six clasps, Sudan 1897, Abu Hamed, The Atbara, Khartoum, Sudan 1899, Gedid, enamel work slightly chipped in places, good very fine, mounted Court-style as worn in Spink, London leather case, the lid gilt inscribed, 'I.M., Guards Club' (14)

Lot Essay

For full career details of General Sir Ivor Maxse, K.C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., see John Baynes' biography Far From A Donkey (copy included with lot), or O'Moore Creagh and Humphris' The Distinguished Service Order.