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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 639

The mounted group of nine miniature dress medals worn by Major H. B. Shepheard, Royal West African Field Force, late Honourable Artillery Company, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Royal Flying Corps and Colonial Civil Service

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer's (O.B.E.) 2nd Type Badge; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, good very fine, housed within their A. H. Baldwin fitted case (9)

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1955.

Hugh Beaumont Shepheard was born on 31 January 1893 and served initially during the Great War in the ranks of the 1st Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company in France from 18 September 1914. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in March 1915, he served with the 8th Battalion before being attached to the Royal Flying Corps. By the armistice, Shepheard was serving with the Board of Agriculture and had also earned a mention (London Gazette 14 January 1917, refers).

With a great interest in Africa, Shepheard had been a member of the Nigerian Field Society since 1930 and was by 1937 a Captain in the Colonial Service. He served during the Second World War with the Royal West African Field Force in Burma and concluded his career earning the O.B.E. for his work as a liaison officer for Nigerian students in the United Kingdom; sold together with a copied portrait of the recipient.

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