Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Queen’s Fire Service Medal group of six awarded to Assistant Chief Fire Officer H. E. Cushing, Kent Fire Brigade, late Coldstream Guards

Queen’s Fire Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, for Distinguished Service (Herbert Evangelo Cushing, Asst. Ch./Fire Offr (Dep. Ch. Fire Offr.), Kent Fire Bgd.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Fire Brigade Long Service, E.II.R. (Herbert E. Cushing, Asst. Chief Officer), minor official correction to rank on the first, generally good very fine (6) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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Queen’s Fire Service Medal London Gazette 14 June 1975.

Herbert Evangelo Cushing, who was born in December 1920, witnessed active service in the Coldstream Guards (Guards Armoured Division) in North-West Europe in the last War, prior to joining the National Fire Service in May 1946. He subsequently served with Hertfordshire, Hampshire and Gloucester Fire Brigades, prior to moving to Kent in May 1967, where he was appointed Assistant Chief Fire Officer (Deputy Chief Fire Officer) in the following year. He retired in March 1977, intending to take up a post as a fire advisor in Nigeria; sold with research, including copy Fire Brigade service record.