Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-war M.B.E. group of six awarded to Q.M. & Hon. Major K. D. Lewis, Welsh Guards

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military Division), Member’s 2nd type breast badge; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (2739311 W.O. Cl. 1 K. D. Lewis, Welsh), mounted court-style as worn, generally very fine or better (6) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1967.

Kenneth Daniel Lewis served as an Orderly Room Sergeant in the 1st Battalion from 1952 to 1960, when he was appointed Superintending Clerk at R.H.Q. Welsh Guards. Commissioned as a Lieutenant in September 1965, his subsequent award of the M.B.E. was in respect of his services as Superintending Clerk and Unit Families Officer at R.H.Q. Welsh Guards; the lengthy recommendation also includes mention of his fine work in connection with the 50th Anniversary year of the Regiment (copy included).

Advanced to Captain (Q.M.) in March 1967, Lewis was extra-regimentally employed as a Personnel Selection Officer before returning to the Guards Depot as Assistant Adjutant-General in the 1970s and being appointed Major (Q.M.). He was also for many years the editor of the Welsh Guards regimental magazine, finally standing down in 1992 to take up appointment as Vice President of the Welsh Guards Association; sold with copied research.