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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 434

Pair: Lieutenant E.J. Malim, Imperial Yeomanry, Later Captain, Manchester Regiment, Later Major, Machine Gun Corps Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (11392 Pte. E.J. Malim, 62 Imp. Yeo.), last letter of surname officially corrected; King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. E.J. Malim, 11 Imp. Yeo.), good very fine or better (2) Estimate £ 90-110 O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Malim, Maj. Edward John, M.G. Corps ´For valuable service rendered in connection with the War.´ Major Edward John Malim, O.B.E., born Streatham, London, November 1880; enlisted as 11392 Private, 62nd (Middlesex) Squadron, 11th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, 24.2.1900; served in South Africa 14.4.1900-17.7.1901; discharged 25.7.1901; Re-enlisted 30.10.1901; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 15.12.1901; served in South Africa from 9.11.1901 until the cessation of hostilities; Served Natal Police May to June 1904; went to Malaya as a Planter; re-enlisted 31.12.1914; appointed Captain, 17th (2nd City) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, 1.1.1915; transferred Machine Gun Corps, 26.6.1916; Relinquished Commission with the rank of Major, 26.10.1920 and returned to Malaya; appointed Reserve of Officers 19.12.1921; retired 28.11.1930. Also entitled to the O.B.E., 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, and Victory Medal.

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