Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War O.B.E. group of nine awarded to Chief Engineer W. J. A. Chisholm, Merchant Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, with its Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (William J. A. Chisholm); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Pacific Star; Italy Star, these last four engraved ‘W. J. A. Chisholm, Chief Engr., M.N.’; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45, these two engraved ‘W. J. A. Chisholm, M.N., Engr.’, generally good very fine (9)
£300-350

O.B.E. London Gazette 26 June 1946.

William John Armstrong Chisholm, who was born in Northumberland in July 1884, was awarded his O.B.E. in respect of services in the tanker Henry Dundas, which ship had been bombed and damaged by enemy aircraft while anchored in the Mersey back in September 1940.