Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare O.B.E., M.B.E. group of five to Captain D. P. Malyn, Royal Army Service Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, gilt metal; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (5) £350-400

O.B.E. London Gazette 5 June 1952. ‘Manager, Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), Cairo’.

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt’.

Donald Paton Malyn is shown in the Army List for 1918 as Military Forwarding Officer (Graded as Staff Captain), at Head Quarters, for embarkation duties.

A rare instance of a recipient of two classes of the Order of the British Empire which, because one is Civil and the other Military, he is properly allowed to wear together. He could, however, only use the higher post-nominal letters. For the recipient’s miniature medals see lot 564.