Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant L. G. Machin, O.B.E., Gloucestershire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. G. Machin.) good very fine and better (2) £50-70

O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 1 January 1951: Lionel Gilbert Machin, Esq., Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department.

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 February 1919:
‘For services in Mesopotamia, Lines of Communications, Indian Army.’

Lionel Gilbert Machin was born in Bristol on 4 March 1897, and was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He served with the Bristol Grammar School Officer Training Corps, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on 11 August 1915. He served during the Great War in Mesopotamia with the 7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment from 14 June 1916, and subsequently post-War in India, as Temporary Captain and acting Adjutant of No. 16 Special Battalion. He relinquished his commission on 18 December 1920, retaining the rank of Lieutenant.
On 2 July 1920, Lionel Machin was admitted as an Examiner, Exchequer and Audit Department, Civil Service, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1951 New Year’s Honours’ List. He died in Bexley, Kent, on 13 May 1962.