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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 359

A 1946 M.B.E. group of three awarded to Major R. F. A. Mallinson, Royal Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd Type breast Badge, silver; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (3)

M.B.E London Gazette 1 January 1946.

Richard Frederick Adrian Mallinson was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant from either an O.C.T.U. or the Coastal Artillery School on 29 April 1941. It is understood he was stationed on the Dover Coastal Heavy Batteries for the majority of the Second World War - with his award coming for the sinking of the blockade runner Munsterland on 20 January 1944. Post-war he went to the stage and screen. Mallinson was scripted with David Jacobs for Make up Your Mind in 1958, besides writing Cheshire Strife, which played at the Rex Theatre, Wilmslow; sold together with a number of photographs, including the recipient with Winston Churchill, script and programme and letters related to his award.

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£160

Starting price
£110