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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 274

Miniature Awards: The O.B.E. Group of Eight Attributed to Major B.H. Withers, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Late Egyptian Camel Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer´s (O.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine, with M.I.D. Oakleaf; Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband, gilding rubbed from O.B.E., otherwise very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (8) Estimate £ 80-120 O.B.E. London Gazette 4.6.1928 Captain Bramwell Henry Withers, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), attached Sudan Defence Force. Egypt, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class London Gazette 3.7.1923 Captain Bramwell Henry Withers, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), Commanding 11th Sudanese, Egyptian Army ´In recognition of good services rendered during the recent operations in Southern and Western Darfur.´ M.I.D. London Gazette 23.7.1937 Withers, Maj. B. H., O.B.E., 1st Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (since retired) ´In recognition of distinguished services rendered in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period, April to October, 1936.´ Major Bramwell Henry Withers, O.B.E., (1888-1968), Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 1914; and served during the Great War in German East Africa from 3.11.1914; moved to Egypt in January 1917, advanced Major, and seconded for service with the Egyptian Army from 4.11.1918 to 16.1.1925, when he transferred to the newly formed Sudan Defence Force; served with the British Forces in Palestine and trans-Jordan, 1936; retired January 1937. During the Second World War he served with 5th Company, Lancashire Battalion Home Guard.

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