Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An impressive Second World War Band Master’s M.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Hon. 2nd Lieutenant S. Hurrell, 4th King’s African Rifles, late Cheshire Regiment

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1914-15 Star (9153 Pte. S. Hurrell, Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (9153 Pte. S. Hurrell, Ches. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (4114269 Sjt. S. Hurrell, Cheshire R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (4114269 Sjt. S. Hurrell, Ches. R.), the Great War medals and L.S. & G.C. with contact marks and polished, thus good fine, the remainder very fine or better (11) £400-500

M.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1944.

Sidney Hurrell was a pre-Great War regular soldier in the Cheshire Regiment, having enlisted around 1909, and is believed to have been a member of the 2nd Battalion when embarked for France in mid-January 1915 - the Battalion subsequently saw action in Salonika and Macedonia. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in November 1927, he sometime thereafter joined the 4th Battalion, King’s Africa Rifles as a Band Master, in which capacity he was awarded his Jubilee and Coronation Medals, the latter while stationed in Uganda (the official rolls refer). Subsequently commissioned as an Hon. 2nd Lieutenant, he was awarded the M.B.E. in the summer of 1944; sold with an original portrait photograph and copied research.