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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 706

(x) The scarce M.B.E. 'long service' group of five to Warrant Officer Class I R. J. Kirke, Royal Scots Fusiliers, who was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member's 2nd type breast Badge; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st type (3124852 W.O.Cl.III. R. J. Kirke. R.S.Fus.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd type (3124852 W.O.Cl.1 R. J. Kirke. M.B.E. R.S.F.), mounted swing-style as worn, good very fine, scarce (5)

M.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1946.

Robert James Kirke was born in Reading in 1902. He joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the early 1920s, and was promoted Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant Major) on 10 October 1938 with the 4th/5th Battalion at Bieth, this rank being a short-lived rank in the Army during 1938-1940. He earned his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in this scarce rank. He was promoted to Sergeant-Major, Warrant Officer Class I on 24 September 1941, earning an M.B.E. on 13 June 1946 and then a Meritorious Service Medal. He does not appear on the August 1951 Army List. He died at Nottingham in 1968.

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£280

Starting price
£250