Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Medal of the Order of the British Empire pair awarded to Leading Mechanic H. Tilley Royal Naval Air Service

Medal of the Order of the British Empire, (Military) (L/M. Harry Tilley. R.N.A.S.) privately engraved; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, bronze, unnamed, mounted for wear, minor edge bruise to first, good very fine (2) £240-£280

Medal of the Order of the British Empire London Gazette 11 June 1918:
‘For courage and presence of mind in preventing an explosion at great personal risk.’

Harry Tilley was originally recommended for the Edward Medal by the Admiralty, though the Home Office argued that he did not appear to fall within the terms of that decoration’s warrant and they would instead put him forward for the Medal of the Order of the British Empire (For God and the Empire, by Roger Willoughby refers).