WW1 Medals of the Earl of Donoughmore British Red Cross Soci...

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£1,850

WW1 Medals of the Earl of Donoughmore British Red Cross Society & Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

A rare group awarded to Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore KP PC in his capacity as a member of the BRCS War Committee. Comprising:1914/15 Star, “EARL OF DONOUGHMORE”, British War Medal, Victory Medal MID Oak Leaf, “EARL OF DONOUGHMORE”, GVR Jubilee Medal, GVIR Coronation Medal, Belgium Order of Leopold with swords. Group remains mounted as originally worn.

Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore KP PC was born in 1875, he served with the Royal Irish Regiment as a Captain 1901/02 before resigning his commission for a career with parliament where he served as served as Under-Secretary of State for War under Arthur Balfour between 1903 and 1905. At the outbreak of the Great War he was granted an honorary Commission by 1918 would hold the rank of Colonel. He was an active member of the British Red Cross Committee and is believed to have visited the Western Front in this capacity earning the 1914/15 Trio. He was Mentioned in Despatches on the 4th January 1917 and 24th December 1917. In 1916 he was part of the Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry. Remaining in politics in the post war years In 1921 Lord Donoughmore was elected one of the fifteen Peers of the Realm resident in the South (elected by a constituency of all Southern Ireland peers) to be a member of the Senate of Southern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. In 1927 he also led the Donoughmore Commission that recommended a new way of governing Ceylon, introducing universal suffrage and trying to involve each ethnic group fairly. He died in October 1948