Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry 48


An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Superintendent H. E. Rand, St. John Ambulance Brigade, late Private, Hampshire Regiment


The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse engraved ‘Supt H. E. Rand Portsmouth Div. S.J.A.A. 1928’, edge bruise; British War Medal 1914-20 (203912 Pte. H. E. Rand. Hamps. R.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Pte. H. E. Rand.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension, with 3 Additional Award Bars (3458. Supt. H. E. Rand. Portsmouth Div. No. 2 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1923.) mounted for wear, generally good very fine (4)


£120-£160


Horace Edwin Rand served with the St. John Ambulance Brigade prior to the Great War, before serving at home with the Hampshire Regiment (M.I.C. gives BWM as sole entitlement). After the war Rand advanced to Superintendent of the Portsmouth Division, and was employed as a Registrar of Births and Deaths in Hampshire. He resided at “The Gables”, King’s Road, Cowplain, Hampshire, and died in March 1940.


49 An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Nursing Member Miss Muriel Meadows, St. John Ambulance Brigade


The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s badge, 3rd type (1947-74), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles flush with the background, the edge engraved ‘N/M N. Meadows Hudds Cen N.S.G. Div. 23.11.73.’; Defence Medal; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R.; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with 3 Additional Award Bars, unnamed; together with a St. John Ambulance Brigade lapel badge; and the recipient’s riband bar, nearly extremely fine (4)


£140-£180 Order of St. John, Serving Sister London Gazette 31 January 1974: Muriel, Miss Meadows.


Miss Muriel Meadows was born in Crewe, Cheshire, on 3 January 1906, and served as a Nursing Member with Huddersfield Centre Nursing Division. She died in Lancashire in July 1995.


50 An Order of St. John group of eight awarded to Corporal J. C. Taplin, Royal Army Medical Corps


The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 5th type (1984-91), silver, heraldic beasts in angles; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with 4 gilt Additional Award Bars (Cpl. J. C. Taplin. Herts. S.J.A.B. 1951.) good very fine (8)


£120-£160 Order of St. John, Service Brother, London Gazette 23 December 1988.


Joseph Charles Taplin was born at Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on 29 April 1919, and joined the St. John Ambulance Brigade in 1937. He served during the Second World War with the Royal Army Medical Corps in North Africa and Sicily, and following the cessation of hostilities resumed his service with the Brigade. He took an active part in the Stevenage Northern Command Division, and was appointed a Serving Brother of the Order after 50 years’ service. He died in March 2001.


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A Great War 1915 ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Sapper F. G. Braby, ‘LZ’ Cable Section, Royal Engineers


Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (70332 Sapr. F .G. Braby. ‘LZ’ Cable Sec: R.E.); 1914-15 Star (70332 Spr: F. G. Braby. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (70332 Spr. F. G. Braby. R.E.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (611 Spr: F. G. Braby. R.E.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Frederick George Braby D.C.M.) first five mounted as worn, the last loose in case of issue, good very fine and better (6)


£800-£1,200


D.C.M. London Gazette 14 January 1916; citation published 11 March 1916: ‘For conspicuous good work, when he assisted an officer to carry out a signal experiment which involved approaching as close as possible to the enemy’s trenches. He also assisted to maintain a telephone line during a protracted and fierce engagement and did excellent work.’


Frederick George Braby was born in Peckham, Surrey, in 1885 and attested for the Royal Engineers (Territorial Force) at London on 16 February 1909, whilst employed as a G.P.O. Telegraphist. He served with ‘LZ’ Cable Section during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 April 1915; was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his gallantry on the Western Front between 1 and 4 August 1915; and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 148 of 1920. He retired from the Post Office in 1940, being awarded the Imperial Service Medal on his retirement (London Gazette 9 August 1940), and died in London on 22 November 1954.


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