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A Great War civil O.B.E. group of three awarded to Chief Engineer John Philip Plage, Mercantile Marine
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1917; British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (John P. Plage); together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals, extremely fine (6) £200-250
O.B.E. London Gazette 30 March 1920 and Edinburgh Gazette 1 April 1920. ‘... for services in connection with the War.’ ‘John Philip Plage, Esq., Chief Engineer, S.S. “Australind.”
The Australind was utilized as a troopship during the Great War. With copied gazette extracts.
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