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Ubsdell Family: Lieutenant Colonel Thurlow Richardson Ubsdell, DSO, Royal Horse Artillery Distinguished Service Order, G.R.V., silver gilt and enamel Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut T.R. Ubsdell, R.F.A.), 1914 Star and Bar (Capt:T.R. Ubsdell, R.F.A.) British War and Victory Medals (Major T.R. Ubsdell) with MID oakleaves 1935 Jubilee Medal France. Légion d’honneur, good very fine or better, lacquered with dress miniature awards and cases of issue Silver desk stand presented to Ubsdell from the officers R.A. mess Rawal Pindi April 29th 1909 (and so inscribed), with two silver top ink bottles with the initials T.R.U., the stand 27 cm long, approximately 747g together with a box containing hundreds of letters from Lt Col Thurlow Richardson Ubsdell from the Western Front circa 1914 onwards, a large scrap album compiled by Ubsdell which covers his personal life and career in the army and at home, many photographs, including Ubsdell wearing his QSA medal, another of the 13th Battery receiving their medals at Nowgong, India, original documents such as commission certificate dated 21 May 1900 (2nd Lieutenant), mentioned in despatches certificates etc, Secret blue report No4 titled 'Report on the Armed Forces of Germany and the work the Effective Sub-Commission of Control', the cover inscribed 'T.R. Ubsdell', two folders full of documents titled 'Political Parties in Germany', and 'Revolution of March 12/13th 1920' with a typed report for the Berlin Revolution on 13 March 1920, together with another group of medals to his son Major Edward Thurlow Hope Ubsdell, Somerset Light Infantry, killed on active service in a motoring accident in Germany, 10 November 1945 1939-1945 Star, Burma Star, Defence and War Medals, extremely fine and lacquered, both groups presented in a modern display frame, glazed, frame size, 49 x 35 cm (Quantity: 1) D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918 M.I.D. London Gazette 14 January 1915 30 November 1915 7 November 1917 13 November 1919 Lieutenant Colonel Thurlow Richardson Ubsdell (1872-1955) was born in New York, America, he was the son of John Ubsdell who had emigrated to America in the late 1850s and was President of the Great Lakes Engineering Company, River Rouge (considered an outstanding naval architect and marine engineer), the family moved back to England in the 1870s and resided in Southampton, Ubsdell was educated at Rugby School and Jesus College, Cambridge before being commissioned in the Royal Artillery in May 1900, he served in the Boer War from 1901 with the 13th Battalion and was present at the Delhi Durbar on 1 January 1903, an original programme of the Durbar plus order of service is included with the lot, Ubsdell relinquished his commission in 1912 with the rank as Captain, he re-engaged for service at the outbreak of WWI and served on the Western Front with the 6th Division Royal Artillery from September 1914 until the end of the war, he was mentioned in despatches four times plus awarded the DSO. In 1918 Ubsdell was appointed Summary Court Officer in Cologne, during this time, he tried over 5000 Germans and presided over a special court to try Spartacists charged with inciting Mutiny in the British Army and with a plot to murder General Plumer and other British Officers. Between 1918-1920 he joined the "British Effectives' Sub-Commission of the Control Commission or the Disarmament of Germany in Berlin as AAG and subsequently was President of the Berlin District Commission of Control for the Execution of the Military clauses of the Peace Treaty (Treaty of Versailles) and the Disbandment of the German Army, there are several pages of black and white photographs relating to General Foch accepting the German request for armistice, with relevant newspaper cuttings. Ubsdell served during WWII with the Home Guard from 3 June 1940 to 1 October 1942 (a certificate from George VI is included along with original ARP paperwork an