Ex WG staff officers SD cap

[JerryBB]

Circa WWI or perhaps interwars Staff officers SD cap named to EF Morgan 4th Baron Tredegar. He was well known and his personal life was worth two books.

WWI he was with the Welsh Guards at the the front but was ill and went on half pay before becoming Private Secretary as a Staff officer to WC Bridgman Minister for Labour until resigning his commission in 1919 again because of ill health.

WWII he was with the pigeon department involved in dropping pigeons behind the lines in France for use by agents until he was embroiled in scandal and after atrial left the army-there are full details of his career and his trial available. It is named to him and came with the label inside it.

[JerryBB]

Some detail of the owners history.

It is a WWI period (1917) staff officers service dress cap, which would be quite desirable in its own right, but this example is named, which always adds to its desirability IMO. What makes this one even more interesting is that it belonged to a well known welsh eccentric who later became the 4th Baron 2nd Viscount Tredegar.

During the Great war he served with the Welsh Guards (another bonus for me) and in 1917 he became a staff officer and was friends with Robert Graves of the RWF and helped Seigfried Sassoon excape courts martial for his infamous peace letter.

Fuller details of his war and other history can be found in this link tredegarhouse | An unofficial look at Wales' finest Restoration Period mansion.

The pictures of the cap are the sellers and are pretty poor but will suffice until it arrives, It appears to be named on the sweat band and has the information card inside the liner, so I assume it is the genuine article, though the price was good if it had been an unamed staff officers cap from WWI, so all good either way.

A link to a painting of him. Evan Frederick Morgan, 4th Baron, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (2nd Creation) (1893-1949), Edith Mary Mason Hinchley (b.1870) 1553476 | National Trust Collections

And another Evan Frederick Morgan, 4th Baron, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949) , Cathleen Sabine Mann, Marchioness of Queensberry (London 1896

Wikipeadia listing for him. Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also a very colourful article on him from the daily mail. The devil worshipping viscount and his VERY naughty party trick with a parrot | Mail Online

His 2nd world war service is an interesting story in its own right.

When war was declared in 1939, he managed to get himself taken on by MI14, the secret service department detailed to handle carrier pigeons bringing back messages from frontline troops in France.

So unused was he to the discipline which goes with military work, that he let two Girl Guides look at the map used to plan the 1942 Allied attack on Dieppe — which, coincidentally, turned out to be one of the war’s greatest military disasters.

Such was the horror of superior officers when they learned that he had divulged highly secret troop deployment details — even though it was only to a couple of teenage girls — that Tredegar was court-martialled.


He was also famous for being friends with Alistair Crowley and was well known for keeping strange pets including a boxing kangeroo.

[JerryBB]

Adding a pic of it as it came to me with the label detailing its owner inside it.

A newspaper article about a book on him, typical sensationalist daily mail but makes for interesting reading.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ck-parrot.html


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