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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 592

A Second World War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel V. H. Witpen, Army Catering Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MB.E. (Military) Member's 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953, in box of issue, good very fine (5)

M.B.E. London Gazette 28 June 1945.

Vivian Henry Witpen was born at Stepney, Middlesex on 11 September 1907. Having served with Headquarters 10 Corps in Italy during the Second War, he was awarded the M.B.E. having provided '...an exceptionally high standard of messing over a very long period'. Witpen was later awarded the O.B.E., being invested at Buckingham Palace on 6 July 1954, on which occasion Fusilier D. Kinne was presented the George Cross. Retired on 1 April 1959, he died at Hastings in November 1987; sold with the named enclosure for the M.B.E., certificate for the Coronation Medal 1953 and ticket for Buckingham Palace Investiture, 6 July, 1954.

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