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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 612

A Second War C.B.E.and Great War M.C. Group of Twelve to Brigadier A.B. McPherson, Jat Light Infantry.
Order of the British Empire, Commander's (C.B.E.) neck Badge, Military Division, 2nd type, with riband; The Royal Victorian Order, Member's (M.V.O.) breast Badge, reverse numbered 1292 and dated 1933; Military Cross, G.V.R. reverse inscribed 'A.B.McPherson France 1915'; 1914 Star with bar (A.B McPherson 1/6/Jat Lt. Infty.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major); India General Service 1936-1939, one clasp, North West Frontier 1936-1937 (Colonel M.V.O., M.C.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, contact marks to white enamel, the medals laquered, good very fine, mounted as worn (12)


C.B.E. London Gazette 8.6.1944. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) A. B. McPherson, M.V.O., M.C., Indian Army.

M.V.O. London Gazette 3.6.1933. Lieutenant-Colonel A.B. McPherson, M.C. In charge of the Indian Orderly Officers in attendance on His Majesty

M.C. London Gazette 14.1.1916. Captain A.B. McPherson, 6th Jat Light Infantry, Indian Army.

Brigadier Alan Bruce McPherson (1887-1978) entered Indian Army 1906; Captain 1915; served in France 1914-15; Egypt, 1915; Mesopotamia, 1915-16 (wounded, M.I.D. twice); Operations N.W.F. India, 1936-37; Commander 11th (Ahmednagar) Infantry Brigade, India and Egypt, 1937-40.

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