British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals attributed to Brigadier-General Sir Henry Maybury, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., C.B., Royal Engineers

Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross, 1st type, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of St. Michael & St. George, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of the Bath, (Military) silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; France, Legion of Honour, 4th Class, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted as worn, in Garrard, London leather case, minor enamel damage, very fine and better (8) £160-200

Henry Percy Maybury was born in 1864 in Uffington, Shropshire and was educated in nearby Upton Magna. Latterly employed as a Consulting Civil Engineer, he began his career as a railway engineer, working for a number of companies including the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, Ffestiniog Railway and Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway. During 1904-13 Maybury served as the County Surveyor for Kent. With the onset of war he was appointed by the War Office to build and maintain roads at military camps in the United Kingdom. In 1916 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General and placed in charge of the Roads Directorate which supervised the roads used by the allied forces in France. For his services in the war he was awarded the C.B. in 1917 and the C.M.G., followed by the K.C.M.G. in 1919, together with the Legion of Honour from France. Post war he was Director-General of Roads with the Ministry of Transport, 1919-28; Consulting Engineer and Adviser to the Ministry of Transport, 1928-32; Chairman of London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, 1924-33; Member of the London Passenger Transport Board and of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, 1933-42. Upon his retirement from the Ministry of Transport in 1928 he was awarded the G.B.E. and given the Freedom of the City of Shrewsbury. In addition he was a Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers - being president 1933-34 and J.P. for Kent. Latterly living at ‘Four Winds’, Mousecroft Lane, Shrewsbury, Shropshire; he died on 7 January 1943.

With copied research.