Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

A Great War O.B.E. group of six to Brigadier F. A. Heymann, Royal Corps of Signals, late Royal Engineers
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt (gilding mostly gone), hallmarks for London 1919; 1914 Star (Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Major); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, good very fine (6) £160-200

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.
M.I.D. London Gazette 14 December 1917 and 7 July 1919.

Francis Albert Heymann was born in 1882 and entered the Royal Engineers as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1 October 1904. He was promoted Lieutenant on 23 June 1907 and Captain on 30 October 1914, holding the rank of Acting Major during 15 March 1917 - 26 October 1919. For his war services he was awarded the O.B.E., twice mentioned in despatches and received the brevet of Major on 1 January 1918. Appointed a Captain with the Royal Signals in 1920, he was promoted Major on 11 June 1921, Lieutenant-Colonel on 31 March 1926; received the brevet of Colonel on 1 July 1929 and attained the rank of Colonel on 1 April 1930, the same year he was placed on Half Pay.

Amongst his appointments, he was an Instructor at the Royal Military College Canada, 1911-14; Chief Instructor at the army Signal School at Dunstable during 1918; Second in Command of the School of Signals, 1921-24; Chief Signal Officer of India, 1924-30; Chief Signal Officer Southern Command, 1931-34 and was appointed Commandant of the Signal Training Centre, with the rank of Temporary Brigadier in 1934.