Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A civil M.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain J. R. Young, Royal Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial, with Second, Third and Fourth Award Clasps ((1665731 B.Q.M. Sjt., R.A.) mounted as worn; with an ornate Silver Salver, 252mm. dia., 416g., hallmarks for Birmingham 1967, centre inscribed, ‘1939-1969 Presented to Captain J. R. Young, M.B.E. by friends, associates and former members of the Fife Territorial Association in recognition of 30 Years Devoted Service to the Territorial Army and Cadets’, medals with slight contact marks, very fine and better (5) £450-500

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1963. ‘Captain James Rowan Young, Chief Clerk, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Fife.’

Regimental Quartermaster Serjeant Young was appointed a Lieutenant (Quartermaster) in the Royal Artillery on 6 February 1942. Appointed Lieutenant and Paymaster in the Royal Army Pay Corps (T.A.) in February 1960. Granted the acting rank of Captain in February 1961; appointed Captain and Paymaster in February 1962. He relinquished his commission on 31 March 1967. With copied gazette extracts.