An M.B.E. / Order of St. John group of five to Chief Officer S. J. Mayell, Herefordshire Fire Brigade

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Commander’s (Brother’s) neck badge, silver and enamel, complete with neck cravat; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver metal and enamel; Defence; Fire Brigade Long Service, E,II,R, (Sidney J. Mayall, Chief Officer), all except 2nd, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £260-300

M.B.E. London Gazette 6 June 1969. ‘Chief Officer, Herfordshire Fire Brigade’.

Sydney John Mayall, a native of Worcestershire, began his fire-fighting career in 1939 and eventually became Third Officer of the Worcester City and County Fire Brigade. He served 10 years as head of the Isle of Man Fire Brigade before being appointed Chief Fire Officer of the Breconshire and Radnorshire Fire Brigade in 1961. In 1963 he was appointed Chief Fire Officer of the Herefordshire Fire Brigade.

Sold with original documents appointing Mayall as Officer in the Order of St. John, 24 July 1968; Commander in the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Herefordshire, 1 January 1971, and Commissioner in the St. John Ambulance Brigade, 1 January 1971; together with two letters to Mayall from the Central Chancery, a copied photograph and copied research.