Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.B.E. group of three to Group Leader and Adjutant R. C. Follett, Kingston-upon-Hull Special Constabulary

Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) 1st type, hallmarks for London, 1916; Special Constabulary L.S. Medal, G.V.R. ‘crowned bust’, 1 clasp, The Great War 1914-18 (Group Ldr. & Adjutant Robert C. Follett, M.B.E.); Belgium, Academic Palms, silver, mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £80-100

Robert Charles Follett was born in 1872, the son of Edward Way Follett of Bighton Manor, Alresford, Hampshire and was educated at Ochkam Grammar School, Kingsley, Hampshire. He was employed as an Inspector under the Aliens Act. During the Great War he was Adjutant to the City of Kingston--upon-Hull Special Constabulary Force. For his work in connection with Belgian war refugees he was awarded the Academic Palms of the Belgian Order of the Crown.