Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War M.B.E. group of nine to Captain and Quartermaster D. B. Harvie, Reconnaissance Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; British War and Victory Medals (995 Pte., R. Scots); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (7868667 C. Sjt., R. Tank C.), last with minor correction to number, mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better (9) £400-460

M.B.E. London Gazette 15 November 1945. ‘Captain (Quarter-Master) (175793), Reconnaissance Corps (Royal Armoured Corps) (Weymouth)’.

During the Great War David Bryce Harvie served in the ranks of the Royal Scots in France, 30 July 1916-25 August 1917 and 19 June 1918-30 January 1919, and was wounded on 22 August 1917, taking a gunshot to the right leg at Zonnebeke. Later serving in the ranks of the Royal Tank Corps, he was commissioned in March 1941 and transferred to the 2nd Reconnaissance Regiment in May 1941 and served in India and Burma. He was Quartermaster with the Advanced H.Q. ALFSEA. At the end of the war he returned to England and was awarded the M.B.E. Having suffered with mental problems whilst overseas, Captain Harvie committed suicide at his home in Weymouth on 18 December 1945. Sold with some copied research.