Auction Catalogue

22 March 2010

Starting at 12:00 PM

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British Campaign and Gallantry Medals

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Lot

№ 147

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22 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£460

An ‘Operation Neptune’ O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Commander Noel Wilbraham Dixon, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (Lieut....... R.N.) naming mostly erased; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; Poland, Order of Poland Restored, 5th Class breast badge, gilt base metal and enamel, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better except where stated (8) £320-360

O.B.E. London Gazette 28 November 1944.

Order of Poland Restored, 4th Class
London Gazette 22 December 1942.

Commander Noel Wilbraham Dixon, R.N., Admiralty Operations Division, was awarded the Polish Order of Poland Restored 4th Class in 1942 for services to the Polish Navy, and awarded the O.B.E. in 1944 for his services in Operation Neptune (D-Day landings).