FINE GROUP OF NINE TO LT COL BEEVOR O..B.E-TERRITORIAL DECORATION WITH FOUR CONFIRMED CLASPS

O.B.E.(Civil) Order of St John (serving brothers badge) British War Medal
Victory Medal with M.I.D.France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals,1953 Coronation Medal,Territorial Decoration, dated 1942 with first,second, third and forth award clasps.British War and Victory Medals named to: LT C.T.A.BEEVOR
World War 2 Medals,and Decoration named to: LT.COL.C.T.A..BEEVOR.
M.I.D.London Gazette : 04/07/1919 Beevor Lt.C.T.A.,C/52nd Bde
O.B.E. London Gazette: 1st January 1957;Lieutenant Colonel Cecil Thomas Ashworth Beevor,T.D.,D.L.,Chairman,Association of Drainage Authorities.
Territorial Decoration, London Gazette 24/02/1942.Major. C.T.A. Beevor (36367)
3x Clasps: London Gazette 03rd November 1950 Lt Col.C.T.A.Beevor
4th Clasp: London Gazette 01/12/1953 Royal Regiment of Artillery LT-Col
C.T.A.Beevor T.D.(36367) Retired.
Order of St John 14/01/1964 Officer (Brother) Lieut Colonel Cecil Thomas Ashworth Beevor,O.B.E.,D.L.
Comes with a 6 x pages of A 4 typed sheets of Lt Col Beevors' experiences and recollections of the Great War.A few excerpts listed below;
A classical Scholar at Repton, he joined the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, and passed out in February 1916,and joined the 53rd Field Artillery Brigade.in France.Mentions in detail 1st July 1916,and "Maintaining communications in the line by "dodging from shell hole to shell hole" over 1000 yards of open land and,being occasionally sniped at
and mending the breaks in the wire caused by German shell-fire.Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't.
1917 "all this led up to the battle of Arras on the 12th April 1917.It was while looking for a suitable spot for observation,near a building marked on the map as "Pont de Jour" that I got wounded by a bullet in the neck.When I got back to the Battery position the M.O.sent me to a Casualty Clearing Station and from there I was sent to a Hospital at Wimeroux,put on a Ship back to England,and woke at Manchester.
1918; "We came into action again on the Thelus Ridge,to the North of Arras,and just t the right of the Canadians at Vimy ridge.In fact I remember spending quite a lot of time with the Canadian Battalion at their headquarters ........"I was able to take a Gun gun forward of the Thelus Ridge and do some sniping at any movement I saw in the German lines or at night shoot up a crossroads area in their rear where there was was a possibility of of their transport bringing up supplies.
At this this time I was able to get from a heavy Battery nearby some new fuses for our H E shells which were far more instantaneous than the old No.40 fuse,screw in the new fuse and have a shell which would burst as soon as it touched down,without burying itself in the earth.It became a much more effective weapon"
A fascinating record of an Artillery Officers' experiences in WW1-a good read.
Cecil Thomas Ashworth was born in 1898 and died in 1989,the year after he wrote his reminiscences of WW I
In his Civil life he was a Solicitor,and deputy borough coroner and clerk to the Great Yarmouth Parish Church Estate & Muckfleet Drainage Commissioners,Acle drainage board and and Solicitor to the the Abbey Building Society.
a scarce O.B.E, Order of St John T,D with 4 clasp group
see item no;51556 for his miniature group

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