Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Major F. R. Phipps, Royal Engineers, who was Mentioned in Despatches

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E., (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major F. R. Phipps) slight contact marks, very fine (3) £240-£280

O.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1920.

Frederick Reginald Phipps, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, was born in Bedford on 7 March 1875. He served in the ranks of the Volunteer Force with both the Gloucestershire Regiment and Worcestershire Regiment between 1894 and 1903, and was advanced Corporal. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 22 January 1917 for service during the Great War, he served on the Western Front as a Roads Officer. Advanced Temporary Major, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Roads on 20 October 1917, and was released with the rank of Major on 20 February 1919. Post-War he worked as a Senior Engineering Inspector with the Ministry of Transport and died suddenly, as a result of a heart attack, on 9 January 1927.

Sold together with his original ‘blue book’, copied service papers, copied Medal Index Card, detailed original correspondence and articles relating to his death, including one published in The Times, and copied research.