Orders of Saint Anna made by Chobillion, Paris

St.Anna order breast star made by made by Chobillion https://asiamedals.info/threads/imperial-russian-orders-and-medals-made-by-chobillion-paris.24572/

Silver, gold, enamel.
Size 87 x 86.5 mm.

1912 catalogue has variant with diamond cut rays.

Details.

Marked with boar's head for 800 silver and AxC for A. Chobillon.

 

1st variant of iconography.

3rd class St.Anna order.

Silver, gilt, enamel.

1912 catalogue demostrates variant with ball and 2nd class loop.

Details.

Marked with boar's head for 800 silver and "AxC" for A. Chobillon.

 

2nd variant of iconography.

1st class St.Anna order with swords made by Chobillion.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 58 x 52 mm.
Weight 37 g.

Marked with boar's head for 800 silver and "AxC" for A. Chobillon.

Marks.

 

3rd class St.Anna order with swords made by Chobillion of the 2nd iconography.

Silver, gilt, enamel.

 

Another example of 3rd class St.Anna order with swords made by Chobillion of the 2nd iconography.

Silver, gilt, enamel.

 

3rd class cross with swords.

Silver, gilt, enamel.

Marked with French import silver hallmark "swan" and and "AxC" for Adrien Chobillon.

 

1st class cross with swords of 2nd iconography made by Chobillion.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 53 mm.
Weight 37.69 g.

Cross marked with boar's head for 800 silver. Connection ring marked with "AxC" for A. Chobillon.

Medallions.

Swords.

Silver hallmark.

 

2nd and 3rd class French-made Saint Anna orders with swords that were privately-comissioned by Major Wilfred Ormonde White. 3rd class cross is definitely made by Chobillion. His 2nd class Saint Stanislaus orders with swords that also was made in France https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...dentified-french-workshops.27256/#post-363999

2nd class Saint Anna order with swords.
Silver, gilt, enamel.

Medal bar.

Wilfred Ormonde White was born in Milton, Ontario, on 13 December 1887, and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Regiment July 1905, in which capacity, as a Sergeant, he accompanied the regiment’s Coronation Contingent to England in 1911.​

Mobilized on the outbreak of hostilities, he enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier in September 1914 and was appointed the first Regimental Sergeant-Major in the 2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry.

Embarked for France in February 1915, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant that September, and was advanced to Captain and appointed Adjutant of the Battalion in June 1916, shortly after which, on 29 July, he was slightly wounded in the left leg and won the M.C.

Having then served back in England, he returned to France as a Staff Officer in 5th Canadian Division in early 1917, and was appointed Brigade Major to the 14th Canadian Infantry Brigade that March. Once more, however, he returned to England, in order to attend a Staff College Course at Cambridge, following which he went back to France as a Staff Captain in the 10th Infantry Brigade in September 1918 and was similarly employed at the War’s end.

But further active service beckoned, for in March 1919 he was seconded to the North Russian Expeditionary Force, in which capacity he added the D.S.O. to his accolades, in addition to the 2nd Class of the Russian Orders of St. Anne and and St. Stanislaus (Russian Army (Northern Region) Command Orders of September 1919 refer), these following his award of the 3rd Class of the St. Anne; copied verification included.

Latterly appointed to the Royal Canadian Regiment, White was finally discharged from the C.E.F. in May 1920, and later settled in South Africa, though he was able to attend the Fourth United Russian Dinner in London in June 1936.

 

3rd class Saint Anna order with swords /awarded on June 19, 1917/ to Lieutenant T. P. Ryan, Royal Naval Reserve.

Silver, gilt, enamel.

Medal bar /The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. T. P. Ryan. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. T. P. Ryan. R.N.R.); Sea Gallantry Medal, G.V.R., bronze (Lieut. T. P. Ryan, R.N.R., “Glodale,” 3rd January, 1918.); Romanian Order of the Star with Swords; Order of St Anne with Swords/.​

 

Interesting 1st class cross with swords. Different guilloché, different form of the guards and cross is missing at obverse medallion.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 51 mm.
Weight 43.30 g.

Marked with boar's head for 800 silver. Presumptive attribution.

 

Practically identical 1st class cross with swords was owned by Major General Ivor Thord-Gray https://asiamedals.info/threads/1st...awards-of-major-general-ivor-thord-gray.28064

 

3rd class cross with 1st variant of Chobillion iconography. Note interesting construction of the suspension ball.

Silver, gilt, enamel.

Marked with French silver hallmark "boar's head" for 800 silver.

 

3rd class cross with 1st variant of Chobillion iconography.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 38.5 mm.

Marked with boar's head for 800 silver.

 

1st class cross with swords.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 58 x 53 mm.

Marked with boar's head for 800 silver.

 

1st class cross with swords.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 53 mm.
Weight 48 g.