Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A ‘North and North-East Persia’ M.B.E. group of three awarded to Mr A. A. R. Hopcroft, Political Department, Personal Assistant to His Majesty’s Consul for Sistan and Kain

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarked London 1918; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (A.A. Hopcroft, Pol. Dept.) officially re-impressed naming; Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn, very fine (3) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Indian Army from the Collection of AM Shaw.

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M.B.E. Gazette of India 5 August 1922: ‘For services in connection with the operations in North and North East Persia from 1917 to 1921 - Allan Ashly Reed Hopcroft, Esquire, Personal Assistant to His Majesty’s Consul for Sistan and Kain.’

The decoration was presented to him by the Consul General and Agent of the Government in Khorasan at Meshed on 9 October 1922.