A Second War ‘Chindit Operations’ O.B.E. group of five attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Hare, Essex Regiment, who is believed to have had a further career with Military Intelligence whilst attached to the Grenadier Guards

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, gilding almost all rubbed; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style as worn; together with the recipient’s Burma Star Association lapel badge, good very fine (5) £240-£280

O.B.E. London Gazette 7 November 1946:
‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services whilst engaged in Special Operations in South East Asia.’

John Richard Hare was commissioned Lieutenant in the Essex Regiment on 16 September 1940, and served with them in Burma during the Second World War. Post-War he transferred to the Intelligence Corps with the Honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 January 1949, and is also recorded as serving with the Grenadier Guards (the latter unit often being used as the parent unit for those officers employed in Military Intelligence).

Sold with the recipient’s Grenadier Guards Comrades’ Association Life Membership Card; and a signed copy of the book ‘Cloak without Dagger’, by Sir Percy Sillitoe.