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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 392

A 1960 M.B.E. group of four awarded to Clerical Officer H. O. Adshead, Ministry of Aviation, who was taken a Prisoner of War with the Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division at Antwerp in 1914

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, M.B.E (Member's) 2nd Type breast Badge, silver, in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1914 Star (L5/2620. H. Adshead, A.B. R.N.V.R. Hawke Bttn R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (L.5-2620 H. Adshead. A.B. R.N.V.R.), good very fine (4)

M.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1960.

Henry Oswald Adshead was born at Lewisham on 15 September 1893 and was a warehouseman living in Catford upon his joining the Royal Naval Division in February 1912. He served with the Hawke Battalion at Antwerp in 1914 and was officially recorded as a Prisoner of War at Doeberitz Camp, Germany in December 1914. It would be over four years before he returned home from 'behind the wire' on 21 December 1918. He entered the Ministry of Aviation and was a Clerical Officer by 1960. Having reached the age of 101, he died at Chichester in March 1995.

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£450

Starting price
£280