Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Civil O.B.E. and Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Captain Stanley George Pick, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, late Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Garrison Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Capt. S. G. Pick, R.G.A. Messines, June 7th 1917’; 1914-15 Star (1955 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., India, reverse inscribed, ‘Lt. (Hony. Capt.) S. G. Pick, B.B. & C.I. Ry. R., A.F.I.’, mounted for wear, good very fine (6) £900-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1948. ‘Stanley George Pick, Esq., M.C., Chief Traffic Manager, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Bombay

Military Cross London Gazette 16 August 1917. ‘2nd Lt, R.G.A., Sec. Res.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when forward observing officer, in establishing and maintaining communication, being under heavy fire for twenty-four hours

Stanley George Pick was born in Ipswich on 8 November 1892. He entered the Great War as a Private in the R.A.M.C. He was granted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the R.G.A. Special Reserve on 20 January 1917 and was advanced to Lieutenant on 20 July 1918. He served in Gallipoli, August-December 1916; France, March-November 1917, and Italy, December 1917-February 1919. For his brave services he was awarded the Military Cross

After the War he resided in India, joining the railway service in August 1919. He became Chief Traffic Manager of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway in May 1945. For his services he was awarded the O.B.E. in 1948. Whilst in India he served in the Auxiliary Forces, being appointed a Lieutenant in the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment on 1 October 1920. He was granted the honorary rank of Captain in 1928. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (India) by the Gazette of India of 27 February 1937. Sold with copied research.