Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. Lillie, East Kent Regiment, late Manchester Regiment, who was severely wounded during the Battle of the Somme

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. P. Lillie. Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. P. Lillie.); War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, edge bruising and contact marks to the Great War trio, these nearly very fine; the rest better (7) £200-£240

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1944.

Arthur Patrick Lillie was born in 1894 and was educated at Haileybury College. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment on 23 December 1914 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 November 1915, being severely wounded in July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He transferred to the 4th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (Territorial Army) on 27 May 1925, and saw further service with them during the Second World War in India; he was also onetime Registrar of the Diocese of Bombay. For his services during the Second World War he was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in June 1944: ‘Few officers in G.H.Q. can have worked so unstintingly and for such long hours over so long a period.’ He died in 1968.