Coldstreamer Posted 28 March , 2020 Share Posted 28 March , 2020 (edited) hello thumbing through some old dealers list I found a ww1 pair with foreign decorations to a F A WELLESLEY who apparently served in the French Regiment Looking on line it seems the every battalion had a British Major - why was that ? He was apparently in his seventies during ww1 cheers Ian Edited 28 March , 2020 by Coldstreamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullochArd Posted 28 March , 2020 Share Posted 28 March , 2020 (edited) Seems unlikely or we have heard of it somewhere else ..... might this bloke be The Hon Frederick A. Wellesley of the British Army/French Red Cross? (Photo: IWM Lives) Edited 28 March , 2020 by TullochArd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 28 March , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 March , 2020 unless of course this says French Red Cross (according to a later auction) and not French Regiment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullochArd Posted 28 March , 2020 Share Posted 28 March , 2020 I'd say that means French Red Cross ....... and that's him (BWM and BVM) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 28 March , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 March , 2020 great photo you posted of him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullochArd Posted 28 March , 2020 Share Posted 28 March , 2020 9 minutes ago, Coldstreamer said: great photo you posted of him Apparently taken in 1895 at Merton Hall, Wimbledon which fits nicely with his apparent age you mentioned earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullochArd Posted 28 March , 2020 Share Posted 28 March , 2020 ....... for completeness what Foreign Decorations were shown on the dealers list as awarded to him? Thanks. Ian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 28 March , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 March , 2020 thanks - Ive changed title slightly of the thread to try to avoid confusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 28 March , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 March , 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, TullochArd said: ....... for completeness what Foreign Decorations were shown on the dealers list as awarded to him? Thanks. Ian. thats another odd one the dealers list in the 90s says Romanian Order of the Star and Russian Order of St Anne. Fast forward a few years and the Russian medal is now missing from the next list but thats a question for another time Edited 28 March , 2020 by Coldstreamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullochArd Posted 28 March , 2020 Share Posted 28 March , 2020 (edited) It seems a strange Foreign Decoration combo for service in the French Red Cross doesn't it. Presumably the Russian award ceased from 1917. Potentially multi-grade awards with no obvious trace in EG/LG during the Great War .......... where's Foreign Gong when you need him! Could this bloke be the famous soldier/diplomat/"spy" the Hon. Frederick Arthur Wellesley (1844-1931) and pre-war author of "Russians in Peace and War - Recollections of a Military Attache"? If so, these might be pre war medals from earlier service abroad. It would be interesting to find out more about his Red Cross role in the Great War. Seems like a good self isolation project. Edited 29 March , 2020 by TullochArd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 1 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 1 April , 2020 yes thats him - Id say the foreign medals are pre war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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