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26 January 2022

Hammer Price:
£150

The M.B.E. awarded to F. Beer, Esq., Assistant Engineer Inspector, Admiralty

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue, in outer card box and OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Frank Beer, Esq., M.B.E., Lyndale, Lyncombe Vale, Bath, Somerset’, extremely fine £100-£140

M.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1950.

Frank Beer was awarded the M.B.E. whilst employed as an Assistant Engineer Inspector in the Engineer-in-Chief’s Department of the Admiralty. He retired in 1953.

Sold with named Bestowal Document for the award, in envelope; named Buckingham Palace, Central Chancery, and 10 Downing Street letters regarding the award; a copy of the
London Gazette detailing the award; and a portrait photograph of the recipient.