Orders, Decorations and Medals

An extremely rare O.B.E. (Civil), M.B.E. (Military) group of five awarded to Captain D. P. Malyn, Army Service Corps
The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) 2nd type; The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) 1st type; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) together with a companion set of miniature dress medals, both sets mounted as worn, cases of issue for the first two and three news cuttings, nearly extremely fine and rare (10)

M.B.E. confirmed in Burke’s Handbook 1921.
O.B.E. awarded 1952, Manager of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), Cairo.

Donald Paton Malyn is shown in the Army List for 1918 as Military Forwarding Officer (Graded as Staff Captain), Head Quarters for embarkation duties. A rare instance of a recipient of two grades of the Order of the British Empire which, because one is Civil and the other Military, he is properly allowed to wear together. He could, however, only use the higher post-nominal letters.