Hammer

£250

1914 star trio, 1935 Jubilee GV and 1937 Coronation medals. Lieut H T Stebbing RGA, Captain on pair, mounted for wear. Hugh Theodore Stebbing was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 25 July 1906. Seconded to a Signal Company in India on 1 May 1914, he served with the 3rd Signal Company during the Great War on the Western Front from October 1914, and was promoted Captain on 30 October of that year. He was further promoted Major on 3 May 1926, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 31 October 1934. Placed on the half-pay list on 31 October 1938, he retired on 30 April 1939, before seeing further service as a Lieutenant-Colonel during the Second World War with the Pioneer Corps. He appears on the medal rolls for the 1935 Jubilee Medal and for the 1937 Coronation Medal as Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding R.A. Fixed Defences, South Western Ports. He died at Brixham, Devon, on 5 June 1946.