Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good post-war Cyprus M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain & Quarter Master A. E. F. Waldron, Middlesex Regiment - ‘Five terrorist bomb attacks on his house and family have been unable to impair his qualities which have inspired all who have had dealings with him’

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Capt. A. E. F. Waldron, M.B.E., Mx.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (6201203 W.O. Cl. 2 A. E. F. Waldron, Mx.), mounted court-style as worn, very fine and better (7) £400-500

M.B.E. London Gazette 23 July 1957:

‘In recognition of distinguished services in Cyprus during the period 1 January to 30 June 1957.’

The original recommendation states:

‘Lieutenant Waldron took over the duties of Quarter Master to the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in Austria. He quickly showed himself to be exceptionally capable, especially in the complicated tasks involved in the departure of the occupation forces from Austria.

During a 14 month period of intense activity in Cyprus, he has displayed outstanding loyalty, ability and energy. He settled the Battalion into a new station, with detachments scattered over large distances, has administered operations at short notice, and has faced the multitude of difficulties inescapable on active service, with unfailing cheerfulness and efficiency. Five terrorist bomb attacks on his house and family have been unable to impair these qualities which have inspired all who have had dealings with him.’



Albert Edward Frank Waldron, who was born in June 1914, served for 15 years in the ranks and another five years as a Warrant Officer, prior to being commissioned as a Lieutenant & Quarter Master in the Middlesex Regiment in December 1954.

Present at the defence of Hong Kong in 1941, when the “Die Hards” carried out a number of determined stands and grenade attacks, he was taken P.O.W. (T.N.A. WO345/53). And the 1st Battalion sustained further losses when some of those who had been taken P.O.W. were transported from Hong Kong aboard the Lisbon Maru, which ship - armed and bearing no signs of her human cargo - was torpedoed and sunk by an American submarine with a loss of some 840 P.O.Ws. And of those that survived, a further 240 died while being used as slave labour in Japan.

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