Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Major T. H. Redford, Hampshire Yeomanry, later 95th (Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. T. H. Redford.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt. T. H. Redford, I.A.S.C.) rank partially officially corrected; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Territorial, silver and silver-gilt, with integral top riband bar, nearly very fine and better (7) £500-£700

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1947.

Thomas Horace Redford was born on 12 May 1894 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Hampshire Yeomanry (Territorial Force) on 28 November 1916. He served with the Yeomanry during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 March 1917, and was promoted Lieutenant on 29 May 1918. Serving with the 95th (Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, and subsequently the 55th (Wessex) Field Brigade, he was advanced Captain on 2 August 1928, and Major on 1 May 1929, and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration. Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1947 New Year’s Honours’ List, he retired on 1 September 1948, and died in 1972.

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