Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Chief Engineer Officer W. H. Ray, Merchant Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals 1914-18 (William H. Ray); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine or better (8) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 9 January 1946.

William Henry Ray, who was born at Whitehaven in 1885, was awarded his O.B.E. in respect of services as Chief Engineer Officer of the S.S. Malancha, which ship he joined in the summer of 1937, and remained employed aboard until the War’s end, when he was released from service; sold with brief research.