Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Territorial Army M.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant Colonel G. J. M. Peel, Royal Corps of Signals, late Surrey Yeomanry and Royal Air Force

The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) 2nd type; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals; Territorial Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., with three aditional G.VI.R. long service bars, these all dated 1951, good very fine (6) £140-180

M.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1938: Major George John Morley Peel, T.D., 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.’

T.D. London Gazette 28 August 1934: Major, Air Defence Brigade Signals; award of “3 clasps” to the Territorial Efficiency Decoration London Gazette 16 February 1951: Lieut.-Colonel, M.B.E., T.D.

George Peel was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Surrey Yeomanry (T.F.) on 6 March 1915; Lieutenant, July 1917; attached R.F.C. early 1918 and Act. Captain, R.A.F., April 1918; returned to the Territorial Force Establishment in 1919, Royal Corps of Signals, 26th (London) Signal Coy. T.A.; became Lieutenant Colonel in November 1938 and was released from service in 1944.