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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 610

A Second World War C.B., O.B.E. Group of Nine Attributed to Rear Admiral M.A. McMullen, Royal Navy.
Order of the Bath, Companion's (C.B.) neck Badge, Military Division, silver-gilt and enamel, in Collingwood, London, case of issue, with full riband; Order of the British Empire, Officer's (O.B.E.) breast Badge, Military Division, 2nd type; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals M.I.D. Oakleaves; Coronation (2), 1937, 1953, last eight mounted as worn, very fine, with two riband bars, and with five postcards and an envelope addressed to recipient


O.B.E. London Gazette 14.05.1945. Commander M.A. McMullen, Royal Navy (Alverstoke).
C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1964 Rear -Admiral M.A. McMullen, O.B.E.
M.I.D. London Gazette 01.01.1941. Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander M. A. McMullen, Royal Navy.

Rear-Admiral Morrice Alexander McMullen C.B., O.B.E. (1909-1990), educated Cheltenham College; entered the Royal Navy as Paymaster Cadet, H.M.S. Erebus 1927; pre-war appointments included South Africa Station 1929-32, China Station 1933-36; Asst. Sec. to Admiral of the Fleet 1936-38; served in Atlantic, North Sea and Norwegian waters 1939-45 (despatches, O.B.E.); served in H.M.S. Prince of Wales (battle with the Bismark, and Atlantic Charter Meeting); H.Q. Western Approaches 1941-43; Mediterranean 1944-45 (Anzio Landing, re-entry into Greece, invasion of South France); post-war appointments included Captain of Fleet to C.-in-C. Far East Station, Singapore 1959-61

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