Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A civil O.B.E. group of five awarded to Major D. S. Khory, Karachi Auxiliary Force, late Sind Volunteer Rifles and Somaliland Field Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Corpl. D. S. Khori, Som. F.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (882 Sgt. D. S. Khory, Sind Vol. Rif.); Coronation 1937, unnamed; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies) G.V.R. (Sjt. D. S. Khory, Karachi A.F.) note variation in surname; together with four miniatures of the above (less the Coronation 1937) slight edge bruising, very fine (9) £340-380

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Indian Army from the Collection of AM Shaw.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1938. ‘Major Dinshaw Sorabji Khory, M.B.E., of Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., Sind.

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1930. ‘Captain Dinshaw Soraji Khory, British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, Karachi’

With letter, dated 5 January 1930, from the Government of India H.Q., Baluchistan District, Quetta, addressed to Captain Khory, congratulating him on the award of an M.B.E.; four other letters addressed to Khory; a Government of Sind notification, dated 30 August 1941, to Major Khory informing him that he had been appointed a Justice of the Peace of the Karachi District; a paper bearing his photograph, in uniform, entitled, 'Major D. S. Khory, M.B.E., Special First Class Magistrate, Karachi. Appointed since 1930 to try S.P.C.A. cases'; together with two photographs of the recipient - one in military uniform wearing the A.G.S. ribbon; the other in civilian dress wearing his medals, including both O.B.E. and M.B.E.

With copied gazette extracts.