A scarce post-war test pilot’s O.B.E. pair awarded to Lieutenant-Commander A. H. G. Murray, FLeet Air Arm, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, E.II.R., Malaya, Near East (Lieut. (P.) A. H. G. Murray, R.N.), generally good very fine (2)
£600-800

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1965.

Alistair Hugh Garnet Murray was appointed a Naval Cadet in January 1948 and, on being advanced to Sub. Lieutenant in January 1950, entered service with the Fleet Air Arm. He subsequently served as a pilot in Venoms in the Malaya and Near East operations, operating from the carrier Eagle at the time of the latter conflict in 1956. Having later served as a test pilot at Boscombe Down, from whence he was once compelled to make a forced-landing in a Vampire in the New Forest, he was placed on the Retired List as a Lieutenant-Commander in 1970; sold with brief research.