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Auction: 5019 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 141

M.B.E. Group of Four to Captain E.P. De Kock, Union Defence Force, Late Field Intelligence Department and Kimberley Light Horse The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Member´s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver; Queen´s South Africa, two clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State (66 Tpr: E.P. De Kock Kimberley Lt. Horse); King´s South Africa, two clasps (Intel:Agent E.P. De Kock. F.I.D.), initials officially corrected; Kimberley Star, unnamed, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1900), nearly extremely fine or better, with a copy of the Southern Rhodesia Government Gazette (dated 1.1.1960) (4) Estimate £ 320-350M.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1960 Captain E.P. De Kock Captain Ernest Plewman De Kock, M.B.E., born 1877; educated at Saint Andrews School, Grahamstown, South Africa; Agent Field Intelligence Department, 1900; during the Great War period he became a Field Cornet in the local Union Defence Force, with the rank of Captain.

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