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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 86

A Second War O.B.E. Group of Four to Colonel G. Gilbert, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Late Royal Army Ordnance Corps
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Officer's (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt
b) 1939-1945 Star
c) Defence and War Medals, nearly extremely fine, together with the recipient's cap badge and an R.E.M.E. button; and a silver cigarette lighter, with 'R.E.M.E.' emblem, and engraved 'Presented to Lt. Col. G. Gilbert. on the Formation of R.E.M.E. 1.10.42. by his Technical Staff 14 T.T.C., R.E.M.E.' (4)

O.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1945 Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) George Gilbert, A.M.I.Mech.E. (111014), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Colonel George Gilbert, O.B.E., Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 18.12.1939; advanced Major and transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1.10.1942; retired with the honorary rank of Colonel, 15.3.1945.

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