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26 July 2023

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№ 244 x

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26 July 2023

Hammer Price:
£700

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; together with a Garrard, London, case of issue for a M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge; and an unrelated original letter to a Captain H. E. Fozard on Ministry of Munitions of War writing paper, dated 28 December 1918, and signed ‘Winston S. Churchill’, nearly extremely fine £140-£180

M.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 8 January 1919: Captain Harry Edwin Fozard, Aeronautical Inspection Department, Ministry of Munitions.

Winston Churchill served as Minister of Munitions from 17 July 1917 to 10 January 1919.