Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War ‘Military Division’ B.E.M. awarded to Staff Sergeant D. C. Murch, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (10558031 S/Sgt. Derek C. Murch. R.E.M.E.) in Royal Mint case of issue, good very fine £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

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B.E.M. London Gazette 10 April 1945.

Derrick Clifford Murch was born in London in August 1920, and enlisted in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps at Woolwich in July 1941. He transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in October 1942, and subsequently served with 14 Anti-Aircraft Workshop Company.

Sold with the following contemporary documentation: Soldiers Service and Pay Book; named Buckingham Palace enclosure for B.E.M.; 3 letters of congratulation on the occasion of the award of the B.E.M.; a number of documents relating to recipient’s enlistment, and subsequent transfer to the Army Reserve; portrait photograph of recipient in uniform; with other ephemera.