Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Acting Warrant Officer Class 1 M. B. McCombie, 17th Battalion London Regiment (Poplar & Stepney Rifles)

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (107 C.S. Mjr., 1/17 Lond. R.-T.F.); 1914-15 Star (107 C.S. Mjr, 17-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (107 A.W.O. Cl. 1, 17-Lond. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., with bar (107 Sjt., 17/Lond. Regt.) mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, good very fine (10) £1200-1600

D.C.M. London Gazette 21 June 1916. ‘For consistent good work. He has set a fine example of devotion to duty, often under trying circumstances.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 December 1918 (Haig, France).

With a number of documents including: letter re. his appointment to Colour Sergeant, August 1905; Territorial Force Enlistment Document, April 1908; Embodiment Notice, August 1914; letter of congratulations from the Mayor of East Ham; recipient’s Warrant Document, appointing him a Warrant Officer Class II in the 17th Battalion London Regiment, February 1917; M.I.D. Certificate - Haig’s Despatches of 8 November 1918; certificate permitting him to retain his rank on discharge, December 1924;
pocket diaries (5) for 1917; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; small notebook with notes dating from 1915; a number of photographs; an embroidered card sent by McCombie to his family; Book of Common Prayer; cloth badges (2); copied m.i.c.