A Great War O.B.E. Group of Five to Major A.G. Soames, Coldstream Guards, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer's (O.B.E.), 1st type, Military Division, breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London, 1919); 1914 Star, with bar (Lieut., C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals M.I.D. Oakleaf (Major); Coronation 1911, good very fine and better, together with related Dress Miniatures (10)

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A Great War O.B.E. Group of Five to Major A.G. Soames, Coldstream Guards, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer's (O.B.E.), 1st type, Military Division, breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London, 1919); 1914 Star, with bar (Lieut., C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals M.I.D. Oakleaf (Major); Coronation 1911, good very fine and better, together with related Dress Miniatures (10)

Lot Essay

O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919.

Mention in Despatches London Gazette 4.1.1917.

Major Athur Granville Soames, O.B.E., was born in 1886 and educated at Eton. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards in 1905, he held the rank of Lieutenant and Staff Captain in the 4th Guards Brigade between August and October 1914. Wounded on 25.9.1914 during the Battle of the Aisne, he was promoted Captain in February 1915 and a Brigade Major in October of the same year. Soames was latterly attached to the Staff but invalided in May 1917 due to failing health.