Major-General E. O. Hay CB and Major-General A. K. Hay DSO, ...

Hammer

£3,000

Major-General E. O. Hay CB and Major-General A. K. Hay DSO, OBE: dress medals pertaining to Major General E. O. Hay, C.B. and medals and dress medals pertaining to Major General A. K. Hay, D.S.O., O.B.E. mounted by Spink and Son Ltd, together with an extensive archive of personal and military documents pertaining to each; the medals comprising Distinguished Service Order DSO, Order British Empire OBE (Military), 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal (with oak leaf), War Medal (with oak leaf), George V Jubilee, George VI Coronation, and an Armata Altipiani Medal 1918; the documents including for Maj. A. K. Hay R. A.: Nomination for and Appointment to the Distinguished Service Order, dated 1st January 1917, signed by George V, together with the Statutes thereof, Nomination for and Appointment of the Order of the British Empire Military Division, signed by George V, dated 1st January 1919, Mention of Despatches Certificates dated 13th November 1916, 7th November 1917, both by General Sir Douglas Haig, 18th April 1918, by General Sir H. C. O. Plumer, 26th October, 1918 by General F. R. Earl of Cavan, Certificate for the member of the Ypres League of Officers and Men, a Special Certificate of Signalling dated 5th October 1906, and numerous letters, recommendations and documents, photographs of both men in military uniform, recollections of Major General E. O. Hay, written in 1940 at the age of ninety four, a memoir of Major General Arthur Kenneth Hay written by Lt. Col. Stuart Hay, and a photograph of his original commission signed by Edward VII and dated July 1902. Provenance: The Estate of Mr Joseph B. Hay, son of Major-General Arthur K. Hay DSO OBE - 100 years of a military family.