Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Seston, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, later Sherwood Foresters

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star, the reverse privately engraved ‘137614 E.C.12886 Lieut-Colonel C. F. Seston Foresters & R.I.A.S.C.’; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s card identity discs; R.I.A.S.C. cap and collar badges; and a 14th Army lapel badge, nearly extremely fine (5) £140-£180

M.B.E. London Gazette 17 January 1946:
‘For gallant and distinguished services in Burma.’

Sold with a wooden cigar box, the lid handsomely engraved with the badge of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps; the named card box of issue for the recipient’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal ‘Lt. Q.M). C F. Seston. Foresters.’ [the medal not included with the lot]; and a coloured portrait of the recipient.