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Auction: 22002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 197

A most unusual Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Colonel M. W. P. Block, Royal Artillery and Corps of British Interpreters, who died on 5 March 1919

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Division, 1st Type Officer's breast Badge, silver-gilt, in fitted case of issue; 1914 Star (Bt: Col: M. W. P. Block.); British War and Victory Medals (Bt. Col. M. W. P. Block.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Maurice William Palmer Block), good very fine (5)

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Maurice William Palmer Block was born on 3 September 1857 and was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, being commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 25 January 1877. He retired as Colonel in December 1908. Re-employed on the outbreak of the Great War, he proceeded to France with the Corps of British Interpreters on 27 September 1914. He died in France on 5 March 1919 and is buried in the Dijon (Les Pejoces) Communal Cemetery.

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£400