Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Acting Squadron Leader H. Ezekiel (afterwards Ellis), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who later served in the Mau Mau troubles in the Police Reserve

The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military), 2nd type; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (E. 2631 I.P. (R.) H. Ellis) good very fine and better (8) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa, and other Fine Awards.

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M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1945.

By deed poll dated 16 June 1947, Herbert Ezekiel, a natural born British subject, resident in St. John’s Wood, London, and a Company Director by profession, renounced and abandoned the use of the surname Ezekiel in lieu of Ellis.