orders, decorations, campaign medals and militaria - Spink

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The C.V.O., ‘Korean War’ O.B.E. Group of Eleven to Commander
S.R. Le H. Lombard-Hobson, Royal Navy
a) The Royal Victorian Order, Commander’s (C.V.O.) neck Badge, silvergilt
and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘1485’, with full and
miniature width neck ribands, in Collingwood, London, case of issue
b) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military
Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt
c) Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1936-39,
clasp a tailor’s copy, naming neatly erased
d) 1939-1945 Star
e) Atlantic Star
f) Africa Star, with North Africa 1942-43 Bar
g) Italy Star
h) War Medal, M.I.D. Oak Leaf
i) Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (Cdr. S.R. Le H. Lombard-
Hobson. O.B.E. R.N.), rank and initials officially corrected
j) United Nations Medal for Korea
k) Italy, Republic, Order of Merit, Commander’s neck Badge, 74mm
including tower suspension x 55mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck
riband and lapel rosette, in Cravanzola, Rome, case of issue, generally
nearly extremely fine, the breast awards mounted court style as worn, with
the recipient’s related miniature awards, all housed in a Gieves, London,
fitted case, the lid embossed ‘S. L-H.’, with the following related items:
- The recipient’s riband bar and Naval cloth badge
- Portrait Photograph of Her Majesty the Queen, black and white,
230mm x 170mm, the mount signed ‘Elizabeth R.’ and dated ‘1961’,
Her Majesty in evening dress wearing the sash, Badge, and Star of the
Order of the Garter, and the Royal Family Orders of George V and
George VI, in Plante, London, leather glazed frame
- Illuminated Scroll, granting John William Edmund Lombard the arms
of Hobson, dated 29.7.1924, with two attached seals, in box of issue (lot)
£800-1,000
C.V.O. London Gazette 30.5.1961 Captain Samuel Richard Le Hunte Lombard-
Hobson, O.B.E., Royal Navy.
O.B.E. London Gazette 1.6.1953 Commander Samuel Richard Le Hunte
Lombard-Hobson, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Newcastle
‘For distinguished service in operations in Korean waters.’
M.I.D. London Gazette 27.8.1940 Lieutenant Samuel Richard Le Hunte
Lombard-Hobson, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Whitshed
‘For good services in Operations off the Dutch, Belgian and French Coasts.’
M.I.D. London Gazette 14.7.1942 Lieutenant Samuel Richard Le Hunte
Lombard-Hobson, Royal Navy
‘For skill and judgment while escorting a Convoy.’
M.I.D. London Gazette 4.4.1944 Lieutenant Samuel Richard le Hunte Lombard-
Hobson, Royal Navy
‘For undaunted courage, determination and endurance in H.M.
Ship...Rockwood...in many sweeps against enemy shipping in the Aegean under
fierce and constant attack from the air, and in maintaining supplies to the islands of
Kos and Leros until they fell to superior enemy forces.’
Captain Samuel Richard Le Hunte Lombard-Hobson, C.V.O., O.B.E.,
Commissioned Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Navy, 16.1.1934; promoted Lieutenant,
16.7.1936; served during the Second World War and appointed to the command
of the patrol vessel H.M.S. Guillemot, 11.7.1941; and of the escort destroyer
H.M.S. Rockwood, 11.8.1942; Promoted Lieutenant-Commander, 16.7.1944;
Commander, 30.6.1949; Captain, 31.12.1953; Appointed a Commander of the
Royal Victorian Order and awarded the Italian Order of Merit on the occasion of
H.M. The Queen’s State Visit to Italy, 2-5.5.1961; Appointed Naval Aide-de-
Camp to H.M. The Queen, 7.1.1963; retired, 28.11.1963.
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