Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A civil M.B.E. group of three awarded to Private Harvey Richard Norton, Upper Burma Battalion, Auxiliary Forces India

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Coronation 1937, unnamed; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte., U. Bur. Bn., (A.F.I.)) officially impressed naming, mounted court style for wear, some edge bruising, very fine and better (3) £240-280

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1941. ‘Member of the Legislative Assembly, Chairman and Managing Director, Hall & Anderson, Limited, Calcutta, Bengal’.

In civil life he was in business with Hall and Anderson, general department stores, whose head office was in Calcutta. In 1910 he was employed as an Assistant, and by 1941 was Chairman and Managing Director. Serving in the Volunteers, he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, listed in I.A.O. 656 of October 1930. Sold with copied research.