Orders, Decorations and Medals

An O.B.E. group of six awarded to Captain George Edmund Henning, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut.); Victory Medal 1914-19, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut.) renamed; Defence; Jubilee 1935, these unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Malaya (Sgt., F.M.S.V.F.) officially re-impressed, mounted for wear, slight contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £280-320

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 1953; Federation of Malaya Government Gazette 1 January 1953.

George Edmund Henning was born on 3 December 1888. Educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School and at H.M.S. Worcester, he entered the Merchant Navy with the P. & O. Company. He then joined a Perak estate as a Planter. During the Great War he was appointed a Temporary Lieutenant, Special List, on 19 March 1917, and was employed with the Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia. He was advanced to Acting Captain in December 1918. He relinquished his commission, whilst retaining the rank of Lieutenant, on 6 May 1919 (M.I.D. not confirmed). After the war Henning returned to Malaya. In 1934 he was the Proprietor and Manager of the Cosmos Estate at Kuala Kangsar in Perak. He later took up Silver Fox Farming. Joining the ranks of the Volunteers in Malaya, he was granted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Malay States Volunteer Regiment in September 1925. He was promoted Lieutenant, September 1927; Acting Captain, April 1931 and Captain July 1931. On the occasion when the Perak Battalion, F.M.S.V.F., was granted a Colour on 25 February 1934, Captain Henning commanded No. 1 Company, Malay States Volunteer Regiment. Henning was awarded the Jubilee Medal 1935 (F.M.S. Government Gazette and Straits Settlements Government Gazette 24 May 1935). For his public services in the Federation of Malaya, Henning was appointed an O.B.E. (Civil Division) in 1953. As General Manager of Malay Rubber Planters Ltd., he retired in 1952. Later moving to England, he acquired the Eliot Arms Hotel in Launceston, Cornwall in 1955. George Henning died at Launceston on 5 February 1961. Sold with copied research.