Auction Catalogue

16 & 17 September 2010

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1557

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17 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£680

A military O.B.E. group of five awarded to Commander Lionel H. Butler, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officers’ Decoration, E.II.R., with Second Award Clasp, all unnamed, mounted in a glass-fronted case, good very fine (lot) £400-500

O.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1968 (Birthday Honours). ‘Commander, V.R.D., Royal Naval Reserve’.

Information on the back of the case and elsewhere records that Lionel Harold Butler was a Commander in the R.N.R. and held the degrees - M.Sc., Eng. (London); M.Sc., PhD. (Wales); and was a C. Eng.; F.I.Mech.E. He was Professor of Engineering at the University of Sierra Leone. Serving aboard the aircraft carrier H.M.S. V
engeance, 1947-48, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. in 1956 and attained the rank of Commander in 1960. He retired from the R.N.V.R. in 1974. Butler latterly lived at ‘85 Bishops Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff’

Sold with substantial quantity of related items, including:

Original commission document appointing him Lieutenant, 1956, in glass-fronted frame; letter dated 30 December 1960 re. appointment to the rank of Commander, in glass-fronted frame; M.O.D. letter dated 8 June 1968 notifying him of the award of the O.B.E., in glass-fronted frame; copied O.B.E. bestowal document in glass-fronted frame; M.O.D. letter, dated 28 February 1974 notifying of his placement on the Retired List, in glass-fronted frame (glass cracked); M.O.D. letter, dated March 1974, notifying him of the award of a clasp to his R.N.V.R. Decoration, in glass-fronted frame; O.B.E. case of issue; large photograph of H.M.S.
Vengeance, in glass-fronted frame; colour photograph of the recipient in uniform and wearing medals, in glass-fronted frame; a number of ‘Mess Dinner’ menus; commemorative plates (8) with associated papers - ‘Order of the British Empire’ (3); ‘Silver Jubilee’ (1); ‘R.A.F. Aircraft (4); colour photograph of an aircraft in flight, in glass-fronted frame; also with items of uniform, including: dress jacket and trousers and dress forage cap and blazer.