Orders of Saint Vladimir made by the Moscow workshop IV /ИВ/

Orders of St. George made by the Moscow workshop ИВ https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-st-george-made-by-made-by-moscow-workshop-iv-iv.27619/ ;
Orders of Saint Anna made by the Moscow workshop ИВ https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-saint-anna-made-by-the-moscow-workshop-iv-iv.29188/ ;
Orders of St. Stanislaus made by the Moscow workshop ИВ https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-saint-stanislaus-made-by-the-moscow-workshop-iv-iv.27475/ ;
Imperial Russian Red Cross Society badges made by the Moscow workshop ИВ https://asiamedals.info/threads/imp...dges-made-by-the-moscow-workshop-iv-iv.26632/.

3rd class cross.

Gold, enamel.
Size 45.5 mm.
Weight 13.01 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" and Moscow assay office gold hallmark [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56].​

Central medallions.

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 43 x 39 mm.
Weight 11.8 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" (note that swords also marked with "ИВ"), Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56] and round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head]. Swords marked on guards.

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 43 x 39 mm.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" (note that swords also marked with "ИВ" mark) and Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56] and round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head]. Swords marked on guards.

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 39 mm.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" (note that swords also marked with "ИВ" mark) and Moscow assay office gold hallmarks from 1908+ time period. Swords marked on guards.

 

4th class cross with swords and bow.

Gold, enamel.
Size 43 x 39 mm.
Weight 15.53 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV", Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56] and round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head]. Reverses of the swords blades are also marked. Note different iconography of reverse medallion.

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 43 x 38 mm.
Weight 12 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" (note that swords are unmarked) and Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56. Note different iconography of reverse medallion.

 

4th class with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 43.2 x 38.5 mm.
Weight 11.34 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV", Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56] and round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head]. Swords are also marked.

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 38 mm.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" and Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56. Swords marked on guards and blades.

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 43 x 38 mm.
Weight 12 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" and Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56] and round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head]. Swords are unmarked.

Marks.

 

3rd class cross.

Gold, enamel.
Size 45.5 mm.
Weight 13 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" and Moscow assay office gold hallmark [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56].

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.

Marked with a partly readable maker's mark "[И]В/V" and Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56] and round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head]. One sword marked with a maker's mark "ИВ/IV", Moscow assay office round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head].​

Marks.

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 38 mm.

Marked with a maker's mark "ИВ/IV" and Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56] and round marks [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head]. Swords marked with a maker's mark "ИВ/IV" and Moscow assay office round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head].

 

4th class cross with swords.

Gold, enamel.
Size 42.8 x 38.4 mm.
Weight 11.14 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ИВ/IV" and Moscow assay office gold hallmark of "shovel" form [delta, a female head in a kokoshnik to the right, 56] and round mark [female head in a kokoshnik to the right, dot behind the back of the head]. Swords are unmarked.

Medallions.

Marks.

 

ИВ-made 4th class cross with swords in rather unusual surroundings /for the privately-comissioned cross made by the Moscow-based workshop/.

Gold, enamel.

A Boer War "Colenso" D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Colonel R. F. Meiklejohn, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was wounded and taken prisoner at Mons in August 1914, and interned in Switzerland for the duration of the war; he afterwards served with the North Russia Expeditionary Force and was later an intelligence officer in the Baltic.

Distinguished Service Order, V.R.; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt. R. F. Meiklejohn, 1/R. War. R.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Cape Colony (Capt. R. F. Meiklejohn, D.S.O., Devon. R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major R. F. Meiklejohn. D.S.O. R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. R. F. Meiklejohn.) the British War Medal officially re-impressed; Russia, Order of St Vladimir 4th Class with swords; Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (Lieut. R. F. Meiklejohn. The Royal Warwickshire Regt.).​

Ronald Forbes Meiklejohn was born at Rawal Pindi, India, on 9 October 1876, son of Captain John F. Meiklejohn, Royal Horse Artillery. He was educated at Rugby, and joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 5 September 1896, becoming Lieutenant on 8 April 1898. He served in the Nile Expedition in 1898, taking part in the battles of the Atbara and Khartoum (Medal and Egyptian Medal with 2 clasps). He served in the South African War 1899-1900, taking part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including the actions of Colenso and Spion Kop, and operations in Cape Colony in 1899. Promoted to Captain in April 1900, he was mentioned in dispatches (London Gazette 8 February and 10 September 1901); received the Queen’s Medal with 2 clasps, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 27 September 1901) ‘in recognition of services during the operations in South Africa." The Insignia were presented by the King on 24 October 1902.

Meiklejohn was attached to the Devonshire Regiment at the battles of Colenso and Spion Kop, and is mentioned in a dispatch for his gallantry at Colenso, as related in The Bloody Eleventh, by W. J. P. Aggett, Volume 2:

"... I desire to bring especially to your notice the behaviour of Lieut. Meiklejohn (R. Warwickshire attached) who, together with Captain Radcliffe carried a board from a farmhouse under heavy fire to bring in a wounded man. The man was reached when Capt. Radcliffe was shot down whereupon Lieut. Meiklejohn dragged him and the man into cover and returned to his post...’ According to his obituary it was this act that resulted in the award of the D.S.O. ‘for conspicuous gallantry at the battle of Colenso."

Captain Meiklejon passed the Staff College and was appointed Staff Captain, Naval Base, Cape Colony District, from June 1904 to May 1906. He was Staff Captain, Coastal Defence, Eastern Command, May 1906 to June 1908; D.A.A. and Q.M.G., Coastal Defence, Scottish Command, April 1910 to April 1914; was promoted Major on 6 April 1914.

Major Meiklejohn went to Flanders with the 1st Warwicks as second-in-command but was wounded on 26 August 1914, just outside the village of Haucourt (battle of Le Cateau) by a shrapnel bullet, which passed through the front of his foot, breaking three bones. He was taken to the village church, which was full of wounded, but, unknown to these men, our troops evacuated the village during the night, and soon after dawn the Germans occupied it. Meiklejohn was captured along with the other wounded, and was sent by train to Germany, arriving at Brunswick on 6 September. His subsequent travails at the hands of the Germans until his eventual internment in Switzerland in May 1916 are told in his own words in his highly detailed debriefing account given at Rossinieres on 19 September 1916.

Repatriated after the war, Meiklejohn was employed under the Admiralty, 5 April 1918 to 20 January 1919. He was appointed as G.S.O. 2nd Grade, with the Northern Russia Expeditionary Force from 21 January 1919 (St. Anna order 2nd class with swords, and St. Vladimir order 3rd class with swords - both awards confirmed in War Office list, 16 July 1921). After being attached to the Finnish Military Mission in 1921, he was employed for the next six years in the Foreign Service in the Baltic States as an intelligence officer. He died at Cley, Norfolk, on 4 November 1949.

It turns out that the Ronald Forbes Meiklejohn was never awarded the 4th class order of St. Vladimir with swords. He was awarded the 3rd class with swords /larger cross which is supposed to be worn on a neck ribbon/. Even stranger, his 4th class order of St. Vladimir with swords is a privately commissioned cross made in Moscow. Most likely, in the mess of the civil war in Russia, he never received his 3rd class "Kapitul" /i.e. officially issued Eduard-made cross with swords/ and used a privately made 4th class cross with swords.

R. F. Meiklejohn with the ribbon bar of the Order of St. Vladimir.​

 

Yet another British "Russian Civil War" group of awards with ИВ-made 4th class Saint Vladimir order with swords. This time, not only the order of Saint Vladimir is a non-Kapitul, but the Order of St. Anne, whicр was awarded around 1921, was made by Keibel's workshop back in the 19th century! Once again the British cavalier never received his Russian "Kapitul" orders and bought their replacements /or was issued with what Russian White forces managed to find at the end of the Civil War/.

Gold, enamel.
Size 40 mm.

The Great War D.S.O., "Presentation of the Colours" M.V.O. group of nine awarded to Captain T. C. FitzHugh, Royal Irish Regiment

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th class badge numbered "44"; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897 (2d. Lieut. T. C. Fitzhugh 2d. Bn. Ryl. Ir: Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (Lieut: T. C. Fitz-Hugh. Rl: Irish Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. T. C. Fitz Hugh. M.V.O. R. Ir. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. T. C. Fitz Hugh.); Russia, "Kapitul" Order of St. Anna 2nd class with privately-comissioned swords /Gold, enamel. Size 44 mm. Marked with a St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark from pre-1898 time period/ ; Russia, Order of St. Vladimir 4th class with swords mad by the Moscow workshop ИВ.

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.
M.V.O. 5th Class London Gazette 11 August 1903
Russia, Order of St. Anna 3rd class with swords /London Gazette 16 July 1921/
Russia, Order of St. Vladimir 4th class with swords /London Gazette 16 July 1921/.

Terrick Charles FitzHugh was born in London on 16 November 1876, the son of William FitzHugh Esq., and was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment on 5 September 1896, and proceeded overseas with the 2nd Battalion to India on 26 January 1897. He saw action with them during the operations on the Samana Ridge and in the Kurram Valley, August to September 1897, and then at the Relief of Gulistan, 12-13 September 1897. Promoted Lieutenant on 15 March 1899, he transferred to the 1st Battalion, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, where he was present during operations in the Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, including the actions at Colesberg, 24 January to 12 February 1900; operations in the Orange Free State, March to May 1900; and operations in the Orange River Colony, May to July 1900, including the action at Bethlehem, 6-7 July 1900.

Proceeding to India on 28 June 1902, FitzHugh returned home on 18 March 1903, and was stationed in Ireland with the 2nd Battalion at the time of H.M. King Edward VII’s visit to Ireland, 1 July to 1 August 1903. During the visit the Battalion received new Colours from the King, with FitzHugh being one of the Officers in the Colour Party, and as a consequence he was appointed to the Fifth Class of the Royal Victorian Order. He was promoted Captain on 14 October 1903, and, having qualified as an Interpreter in both German and Russian, proceeded to the Staff College in 1905, passing its final examinations in 1907, by which time he had also qualified as an Interpreter in French.

FitzHugh transferred to the Reserve of Officers on 28 May 1907, and subsequently obtained employment with the British Engineers’ Association as its Commissioner in China, where he added Mandarin to his repertoire of languages. On the outbreak of the Great War he returned to England and re-joined his old Regiment, proceeding to France with the Second Battalion in December 1914. He remained with the Regiment until 5 May 1915, taking part in the early stages of the First Battle of Ypres, before transferring to the Quartermaster-General’s Department as a Staff Officer, first at Calais until October 1915, and subsequently at Dunkirk. His final appointment during the War was at the Headquarters of the Chinese Labour Corps, where his knowledge of Mandarin was put to good use. For his services during the Great War, he was twice mentioned in Dispatches (London Gazettes 4 January 1917 and 11 December 1917), and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.

FitzHugh returned to England in December 1918, and subsequently served in the Russian Intervention, as p, as part of he British force operating out of Murmansk. He also served with a British Mission in Estonia, and assisted in the repatriation of British Prisoners of War from Finland. For his services he was again Mentioned in Dispatches "for valuable services in connection with military operations in Finland and the Baltic States" (London Gazette 3 February 1920), and was awarded the Russian Orders of St. Vladimir 4th class with Swords, and St. Anna order 3rd class with swords . Demobilized on 11 June 1920, he continued to act in the Baltic area on behalf of the British Committee of the Russian Red Cross in Great Britain, by going to Finland to report on the situation regarding the large number of Russian refugees in that country, before returning once more to China. He died in the German Hospital, Peking, on 12 August 1939.​