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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 253

A C.B.E. Group of Four to J.E. Henshaw, Esq., H.M. Inspector of Mines, Late Lieutenant, Royal Engineers
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Commander's (C.B.E.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband
b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J.E. Henshaw.); Coronation 1953, extremely fine, with the recipient's Great Britain Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress 1949 lapel badge (4)

C.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1959 John Edward Henshaw, Esq.
'Lately Divisional Inspector of Mines and Quarries, West Midlands and Southern Division, Ministry of Power.'

John Edward Henshaw, Esq., C.B.E., born Talk-o'-th'-Hill, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1896, the son of Mr. Albert Mayon Henshaw; served during the Great War in the 103rd Field Company, Royal Engineers on the Western Front from 21.6.1917; and captured at Maissemy, near Vermano, 21.3.1918; served as H.M. Inspector of Mines from 1939.

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£300