A Boer War and Great War Group of 4 awarded to Colonel Henry Morris Pryce-Jones M.V.O. D.S.O. M.C., Coldstream Guards, who also served as Body Guard with the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, comprising: King’s South Africa, 1900-1902, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. H. M. Pryce-Jones. Cld. Gds.) officially engraved; British War and Victory Medals, 1914-1920, the latter with bronze ‘M.i.D.’ spray of oak leaves upon ribbon; Jubilee Medal, 1935, unnamed as issued; Group loose, once lacquered, otherwise extremely fine and lustrous (4) C.B. (Civil): London Gazette:1 January 1943C.V.O.: London Gazette: 27 June 1952M.V.O.: London Gazette: 17 December 1918D.S.O.: London Gazette: 4 June 1917 – ‘for distinguished service in the field’M.C.: London Gazette: 17 July 1915Colonel Henry Morris Pryce-Jones M.V.O. D.S.O. M.C. was born in 1878, the son of the Welsh textile magnate and Conservative M.P. Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones (founder of the Royal Welsh Warehouse or R.W.W.) and Eleanor, Lady Pryce-Jones. Educated at Eton College, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant with the Coldstream Guards on 9 August 1899, serving soon after during the Boer War in South Africa (entitled Q.S.A. 6 clasps, not present) and twice mentioned in despatches. He was promoted to Captain on 16 February 1909 and then served during the Great War, being awarded the M.C. and D.S.O. (neither present) while D.A.A.G. to the H.Q. of the Inspector General of Communication (M.I.C. refers), also receiving multiple mentions in despatches. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel (Reserve of Officers) on retired pay on 21 April 1920.Despite his retirement from the Regular Army, he took up a Territorial Army position with the 2nd County of London Regiment, and as H.M. Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms with the Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel on 12 May 1926. Having attained the age limit of liability to recall, he was retired from the Reserve of Officers on 17 February 1933, and was made an officer (‘Harbinger’) of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms on 1 July 1938.While too old for active service in WW2, he took up the post of Secretary of the Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of London, for which he was made C.B. on 1 January 1943. Later, he received a further promotion within the Royal Victorian Order, being was made C.V.O. (presumably for his work with H.M. Bodyguard) on 21 June 1952.

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