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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 408

(x) A 1920 M.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Tait, New Zealand Medical Corps and Indian Medical Service, who died on 30 August 1943

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st Type breast Badge, silver, mounted on 2nd Type riband; British War and Victory Medals (3-2313 Capt. H. C. Tait. N.Z.E.F.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt. H. C. Tait.); Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, the VM separate, very fine (6)

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920.

Henry Caldwell Tait was born at Dunedin on 7 April 1886 and was a Medical Practitioner by trade. During the Great War he served on the Western Front from 1917 and was away from New Zealand for two years 339 days, before seeing further active service in Iraq.

Tait was serving with the Indian Medical Service by the outbreak of the Second World War, and died on 30 August 1943. Aged 57, he is buried in the Kirkee War Cemetery.

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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£220