Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Captain D. O. Fairlie, Royal Signals, later Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Fife

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E., (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (Capt. D. O. Fairlie. R. Sigs.); Korea 1950-53, 2nd issue (Capt. D. O. Fairlie. R. Sigs.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, contact marks, verdigris stains to the reverse of the last, otherwise very fine (8) £360-£440

M.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1983.
D.L. London Gazette 31 January 1975.

David Ogilvy Fairlie, the son of James Ogilvy Fairlie and Constance Gertrude Lascelles. of Myres Castle, Auchtermuchty, Fife, was born on 1 October 1923. He was commissioned into the Royal Signals on 11 August 1943 and served during the Second War in North West Europe before further service in South East Asia after the cessation of hostilities. Inheriting Myres Castle in 1949, he was advanced Captain on 1 October 1950, and served in Korea during the Korean War before retiring on 21 December 1959. Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Fife on 21 January 1975, he was further appointed M.B.E. for services to the Scout Association in Scotland on 31 December 1983. He died in Guildford, Surrey, aged 89, on 16 January 2013. As a Deputy Lieutenant, he would have been additionally entitled to Jubilee 2002 and Jubilee 2012 medals.

Sold with copied gazette entries, a corresponding miniature medal group, mounted for wear, a miniature Queen’s Korea Medal, and a medal riband bar.