Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

An inter-war Civil O.B.E., Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain W. M. Ablewhite, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) 1st type, hallmarks for London 1927; Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Lt. W.M. Ablewhite, M.C., Colchester, 7th K.R.R.C., 1st Jan. 1918’; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.), good very fine and better (4) £400-450

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1931.

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 25 May 1917.

Walter Murray Ablewhite was awarded the O.B.E. for his services as Steward of Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham, Kent, which office he occupied from 1919 to 1948.