A civil O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. P. Cambridge, Indian Army

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. S. J. P. Cambridge) edge bruising, these two mounted as worn; Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Lt. S. J. P. Cambridge, 1 Bn. E.I. Ry. R., A.F.I.’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1927; with brooch bar, in Hobson, London case of issue; Volunteer Force Long Service (India) G.V.R. (Lt. S. J. P. Cambridge, E.I. Ry. R, A.F.I.); together with a mounted set of six miniature dress medals, as above but lacking the Volunteer Force L.S. Medal but with the 1939-45 and Burma Stars, good very fine and better (11) £450-550

O.B.E. London Gazette

Sydney John Pelham Cambridge, a Lieutenant in the East India Railway Regiment, A.F.I. Appointed a War Substantive Major in the Indian Engineers, 10 September 1942 and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, September 1942-March 1944. Major Cambridge relinquished his commission on 1 December 1945 and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 28 June 1946). With riband bar - showing a military O.B.E. and some copied research.

For other medals to the Cambridge family, see lots 307, 309 and 826.