Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain R. C. Vernon, G.H.Q. Signal Company, Royal Engineers, formerly Royal Engineer Motor Cyclist Section

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914 Star, with contemporary copy bar (28173 Cpl., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); together with recipient’s named Ceylon Great War Voluntary Services Medallion, bronze, 52mm by 45mm; and a Royal Engineers cap badge, all mounted on a blue velvet board, within a contemporary, attractive, hinged, double-fronted display case, nearly extremely fine (6) £250-300

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 March 1919 ‘... for valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Mesopotamia.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917 (Mesopotamia).

Ronald Clifton Vernon was born in the parish of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He enlisted into the Royal Engineers Motor Cyclist Section on 11 August 1914, at which time he gave his trade as ‘Tea Planter (Motor Cyclist)’. He was granted a commission on 1 November 1915, subsequently transferring to the Royal Engineer Signal Company. Sold with 11 pages copied from National Archives correspondence file and copy m.i.c, which does not confirm entitlement to the bar for the1914 Star.