DRESS UNIFORM TO BRIGADIER BASIL EDWARD FLOYD– THE COMMANDER OF ROYAL ARTILLERY ON MALTA IN 1940.
Made by Flights of Winchester & Aldershot, Tailors label named to Lieut Floyd. With Lieutenants insignia.
With dress belt, sash and cross guard belt. Private Purchase ruler, boots and scabbard for 1 1897 pattern sword.
Provenance – Sale by order of the family.
Basil Edward Floyd was born in Birmingham in 1887. Floyd was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on September 10th 1910, into the Royal Garrison Artillery. He had been a member of the Territorial Force while at University.
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£100 - £200
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£320 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Floyd served on the
Western Front during the Great War, landing there on October 4th 1914 and was
entitled to the 1914 Star Bar Trio. He was twice Mentioned in Despatches (
8.2.17 & 6.8.18), was awarded a French Croix De Guerre, gazetted September
4th 1917. He received the Military Cross in the 1918 New Year's Honours.
He continued to
serve in the post-war years, and by the spring of 1940, was an Acting
Brigadier; he assumed command of the Royal Artillery on Malta on May 24th
1940.
Brigadier Floyd
survived the Second World War and passed away in Plymouth in the summer of
1958.
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