Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A civil O.B.E. awarded to Mrs Maud Lilian Davys, Laboratory Assistamt, Kasauli, Punjab

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918, reverse inscribed, ‘Maud Lilian Davys, Jan. 1st 1919’, re-gilded, nearly extremely fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 8 January 1919. ‘Mrs Maud Lilian Davys. Laboratory Assistant, Kasauli, Punjab.’

Maud Lilian Spencer was born on 1 November 1887, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel T. C. H. Spencer, of Beechview, Blackheath. She was educated at London, Paris and Weimar. Prior to the war she married Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Irvine Davys. Before the war she was First Assistant at the Military Food Laboratory at Kasauli and was Assistant with the Quetta Malaria Investigation. During the war she was an Assistant with the Kampti Cholera Investigation; Clerk with No. 2 Ambulance Train; and an Assistant to various Laboratories at Jullundur, Bombay, Ambala and Kasauli. For her sterling service she was awarded the O.B.E.