Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War M.B.E. pair awarded to Doris Macqueen, Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary, Palestine

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver, on lady’s bow riband, in Royal Mint case of issue, the case slightly damaged; Coronation 1937 (D. M. D. Macqueen.) contemporarily engraved naming, good very fine (2) £100-£140

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1944: Doris Mary Dean, Mrs. Macqueen, Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary, Palestine.

Doris Mary Dean Macqueen, née Chambers, was born in 1895 ands married James Macqueen in London in 1921. She served as Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary in Palestine during and immediately after the Second World War, and married Frederick William Syer, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Palestine, at St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, on 18 February 1948. She died in Norfolk on 3 January 1978.

Sold with a photograph of the recipient receiving her M.B.E.; and copied research.

For the medals awarded to the recipient’s second husband, see Lot 206.