Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War ‘Home Guard’ M.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. R. Cooper, Morayshire Home Guard and Combined Cadet Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Defence Medal; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., silver and silver-gilt, reverse officially dated ‘1960’, with top ‘Territorial’ ribans bar; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Lt-Col. H. Cooper. CCF) court mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £200-£240

M.B.E. London Gazette 15 December 1944:
‘In recognition of meritorious service in the Home Guard.’

Herbert Reginald Cooper served with the 1st Battalion, Morayshire Home Guard during the Second World War.