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KCVO numbered ‘K468’;
DSO GV;
OBE (Military) 1st type, HM London 1919;
Queen's Sudan (2/Lt. E. Seymour 1/Gren: Gds.);
QSA (2) Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut. E. Seymour, M.V.O., Gren. Gds.);
KSA (2) (Lieut. E. Seymour, M.V.O. Gren. Gds.);
1914-15 Star (Capt. E. Seymour. G. Gds.);
British War and Victory Medals, with MID (Major E. Seymour.);
Coronation 1911, unnamed;
Jubilee 1935, unnamed;
Khedive’s Sudan (1) Khartoum (2nd Lieut. E. Seymour Grenadier Guards)

Together with an MVO 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘1128’ [as awarded in January 1922].

KCVO 1 January 1934: ‘Edward Seymour, C.V.O., D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Comptroller to Princess Victoria and Extra Equerry to His Majesty.’

CVO 26 November 1925: ‘Edward Seymour, D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Equerry to H.M. Queen Alexandra.’

MVO 4th Class 2 January 1922: ‘Edward Seymour, D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Comptroller of the Household to H.R.H. The Duchess of Albany.’

DSO London Gazette 1 January 1917.

OBE London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘Capt. (T/Maj.) Edward Seymour, M.V.O., D.S.O., Grenadier Guards.’

MVO 5th Class 19 March 1901: ‘Lieutenant Edward Seymour, Grenadier Guards. Funeral of H.M. Queen Victoria; Commanded Bearer Party.’

MID London Gazette 15 June 1916, 4 January 1917, and 20 May 1918.

Edward Seymour was born on 10 February 1877, son of Lieutenant-Colonel L. R. Seymour. He was educated at Eton and entered the Army in 1897 as a Second Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He served in the campaign in the Sudan under Sir Herbert Kitchener in 1898, and was present at the battle of Khartoum (Queen’s medal and Khedive’s medal with Clasp). Served in South African War in 1900-02, and took part in operations in Orange Free State, April to May 1900; in Orange River Colony May 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg, 29th May-wounded-invalided 18th June 1900. Whilst convalescing from his wound in England, Seymour had the honour of commanding the Colour Party of the Grenadier Guards at the funeral of Queen Victoria in March 1901, before returning to South Africa to serve the final stages of the war in Cape Colony, December 1901 to May 1902.

Promoted to Captain in the Grenadier Guards in June 1904, he resigned his commission in May 1908, and was appointed Comptroller to the Household of HRH The Duchess of Albany in November of the same year. He carried the Duchess of Albany’s coronet at King George’s coronation in 1911. Recalled from the Reserve of Officers in August 1914, he was appointed Brigade Major on 28 December 1914. He served in France from 6 November 1915, was mentioned in despatches three times and awarded the DSO. Promoted to temporary Major (Guards) 25 February 1918, and confirmed as Major on 20 April 1919, he was created OBE in June 1919.

Seymour was made MVO 4th Class for his services to The Duchess of Albany in January 1922, and appointed Equerry to H.M. Queen Alexandra on 1 January 1923. He was appointed to be CVO in November 1925 and, shortly afterwards, on 1 December, appointed to the office of Comptroller to HRH Princess Victoria and created a KCVO. for these services in January 1934. He held the appointment as Extra Equerry to King George V, King Edward VIII, and to King George VI.

Edward Seymour married, 29 July 1905, Lady Blanche Conyngham, daughter of 4th Marquess Conyngham. They had a daughter, Verena Mary Doyne, born 24 May 1906, and a son, John Edward, born on 18 October 1915. Sir Edward Seymour died on 28 February 1948.

The KCVO DSO group to Major Seymour sold for a hammer price of GBP 7,000. Total GBP 9,016. R 204,800. AUD 16,670. NZD 18,190. CAD 14,840. USD 10,980. EUR 10,130.

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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Wittebergen, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (7033 Pte. H. E. Wood, Gren. Gds.) clasps mounted in this order, unofficial rivets between 2nd and 3rd clasps;
Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C., H. Wood.)

Henry Evans Wood was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. He attested for the Grenadier Guards at London in October 1897. Wood served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa, March 1900 - April 1901 and April 1902 - July 1902 (clasps confirmed). He transferred to the Army Reserve in July 1902, and joined ‘K’ Division (Stepney) Metropolitan Police in October 1902. Wood transferred to ‘D’ Division (Marylebone) two months later. He was discharged to Pension in October 1927, and died in September 1932.