Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A civil M.B.E. group of six awarded to Paymaster Captain Basil Miles Peck, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (Payr. Lt. Cr., R.N.); Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935, these unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of six miniature dress medals, good very fine (12) £400-500

See lots 1036 and 1197 for medals to other members of the Peck family.M.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 1 January 1965. ‘Honorary Secretary & Treasurer, Jersey Unit, Navy League and Sea Cadet Corps.’

Basil Miles Peck was listed as an Assistant Clerk aboard H.M.S. Pembroke, January-August 1906; rated as a Clerk on H.M.S. Albemarle, January-August 1907 and was ranked as an Assistant Paymaster on H.M.S. Powerful, June 1909-January 1910. At the end of the Great War he was ranked, firstly as Acting Staff Paymaster, then Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander on Carysfort, April 1918-April 1919. Promoted to Paymaster Commander in June 1926 and Paymaster Captain in August 1939. In later life awarded the M.B.E. for services to the Jersey unit of the Navy League and Sea Cadet Corps.

With a folder containing 65 Certificates of Service to Basil Peck, 1906-1946; two photographs of the recipient; the statutes of the Order of the British Empire; five photograph albums containing numerous photographs and cuttings, naval and otherwise, generally covering the period, 1900-32, including photographs of the surrendered German fleet; scenes from New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, Ceylon, Egypt etc,; ‘Notes on Personnel Matters, prepared by Paymaster Commander B. M. Peck (5) Parts I-V; plus index; London Gazette Supplements (6): ‘Transportation of the Army to Greece and Evacuation of the Army from Greece, 1941’; ‘Battle of Crete’; ‘Loss of H.M. Ships Prince of Wales and Repulse’; ‘Operations of Malaya Command, from 8th December 1941 to 15th February 1942’; ‘The Attack on the Tirpitz by Midget Submarines on 22nd September 1943’; ‘Convoys to North Russia 1942’.