C.M.G-D.S.O-CROIX DE GUERRE

Extended Description: The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George C.M.G. Sash Badge; Distinguished Service Order George V; Queen's South Africa Medal with Relief of Kimberley; Paardeberg; Driefontein; Johannesburg; Diamond Hill and Belfast clasps to Capt. W.K. Legge, 1/Essex Rgt.; King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 & 1902 clasps to Major W.K. Legge, S.A.C.; 1914-15 Star to Major W.K. Legge, Essex R.; WWI War Medal to Brig. Gen. W.K. Legge; WWI Victory Medal with M.I.D. (6 times) Oak Leaf to Brig. Gen. W.K. Legge; Coronation Medal 1911; Croix de Guerre avec Palme 1914-1918, all in bespoke contemporary fitted velvet-lined glazed frame by Spink & Son Ltd., Piccadilly.

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The grandson of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, William Kaye Legge was born on 13 June 1869, and educated at Bedford School between 1881 and 1887. He received his first commission as a second lieutenant in the Essex Regiment on 30 January 1889, and was promoted to lieutenant on 6 July 1891. He served during the Second Boer War, between 1899 and 1902, and was promoted to captain on 29 January 1900.

He served during the First World War, between 1914 and 1918, and was Commander of the 163rd Infantry Brigade, between 1924 and 1926.

Brigadier General William Kaye Legge was invested as a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1917, and as a Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918. He retired from the British Army in 1926, and died in Hastings on 29 March 1946.

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